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Cairo Festival City

Cairo Festival City is a mixed-use urban development in New Cairo, Egypt, located along the Cairo Ring Road.

Cairo Festival City
Cairo Festival City · European Space Agency (CC BY-SA 3.0 igo)
The place

Cairo Festival City is a mixed-use urban development in New Cairo, Egypt, located along the Cairo Ring Road. Developed by UAE-based Al-Futtaim Real Estate, it covers approximately 3 million square meters, combining residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, and entertainment facilities and was opened in 2010. At the center of the project is Cairo Festival City Mall, which opened in November 2013.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cairo Festival City

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    30 June Stadium

    The 30 June Stadium known as Air Defense Stadium is a stadium used mostly for football matches and also sometimes for athletics located in Cairo. It was built by the Egyptian Air Defense Forces.

    3.8 km · Stadium located in Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Petro Sport Stadium

    The Petrosport Stadium is a multi-use stadium with an all-seated capacity of 16,000 located in New Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt. It was completed in 2006.

    3.3 km · building in Africa · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Canadian International College

    The Canadian International College, is an Egyptian University in Cairo, Egypt. The CIC is the sole provider of Canadian higher education in Egypt.

    1.9 km · College in Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    30 June Stadium Stampede

    The 30 June Stadium stampede, which occurred in Egypt on 8 February 2015, resulted in the deaths of 28 football fans in a confrontation with the police. The stampede took place at the gates of 30 June Stadium during a league match between two Cairo clubs, Zamalek and ENPPI. Most of the dead were crushed to death and suffocated when the crowd stampeded after police used tear gas to clear the fans trying to force their way into the stadium.

    3.8 km · stadium stampede · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Cairo Festival City

Airports
Cairo (CAI), 10 km · Sphinx (SPX), 50 km · Port Said (PSD), 160 km
  • Al Jiza → Cairo Festival City
    544 km · quickest by air, 8h 18m · $480–730
  • Port Said → Cairo Festival City
    161 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · E£255–340
  • Alexandria → Cairo Festival City
    193 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · E£330–440
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cairo Festival City

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cairo Festival City. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    346 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    390 km
  3. 03
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    392 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    701 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    956 km

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Around it

Next door to Cairo Festival City

Cairo Festival City is 4 km from Al Qāhirah al Jadīdah, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.