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Opened in the spring of 2005, Al-Azhar
Park is one of the world`s sixty largest public spaces. This
wonderful park was offered to Cairo by Aga Khan IV, as a gift,
and its development costs are estimated at 30 million $. The
park is a part of a bigger project that includes historical
objectives restoration as well as archeological aspects. The
park has 74 acre (30 hectare) and is a very important touristic
attraction, being situated in the center of the Islamic Cairo.
The ancient city Fatimid is the Al-Azhar Park western neighbor,
rich in mausolea, madrasas and mosques. The City of the Dead –
well known for its numerous luxurious emplacements - is in the
eastern vicinity of the park. In the south are the Ayyubid
Citadel and the Sultan Hassan Mosque. Al Azhar Park welcomes its
visitors with a special playing area for children, sports
fields, shadowy alleys, a museum, an amphitheater, café shops
placed on the like shores and an amazing restaurant, on the top
of the hill. The restaurants’ garden offers a divine Citadel
view as well as the possibility to see real columns from marble
and manual stonework. The park various vegetation is another
beautiful attraction: various speciess, many of them Egyptians,
dry vegetation as well as succulent, lawns with wonderful grass,
traditional gardens and wonderful landscapes. Al Azhar Park`s
historical value is high since it includes the Ayyubid wall,
recently discovered but constructed almost eight hundred years
ago by Salah El Din. The park also brought very needed and
significant green spaces to the arid area of Cairo, one of the
most populated cities in the world as well as a revitalization
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