Experts' Choice Award Bab Zuweila
What the experts agree on
This restored Fatimid gate crowned with mosque minarets once guarded medieval Cairo's main entrance. Climbing the tight spiral staircase rewards brave visitors with sweeping city views, though the ascent is genuinely cramped.
“Don’t try to climb to the very, very tippy top of the narrow spiral staircase at Bab Zuweila, however, unless you just wrapped up a thirty day juice fast or are missing the limbs on one side of your body.”
– Afar Magazine
Michelin Guide 2 Stars
"Bab Zuwayla has been superbly restored. It was the site of public executions, where the heads of 500 Mamluks killed by Mohammed Ali in 1811 were stuck onto their spears and exhibited. " Full review
Frommer's "Part of the original Fatimid fortifications, this massive gate surmounted on either side by the minarets of the Al-Muayyad Mosque was one of three main portals to the city." Full review
