Experts' Choice Award Cavafy Museum
What the experts agree on
This intimate museum recreates the Alexandria apartment where poet Constantine Cavafy lived his final 25 years, featuring period furnishings and his personal belongings alongside Christian icons, offering a glimpse into his private world.
“Half of it is given over to a re-creation of his home, with a period-piece brass bed and a case of reputedly genuine Christian icons. ”
– Fodor's
Frommer's "Cavafy's belongings and books (though the furnishings are authentic period pieces, his actual furniture was sold before the museum was founded in 1991) are housed in his apartment." Full review
Lonely Planet "Cavafy spent his last 25 years in an apartment, above a brothel, on the former Rue Lepsius (now Sharia Sharm el-Sheikh)." Full review
