Nasr City
Nasr City / Victory City forms two of the nine districts of the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt.
Nasr City / Victory City forms two of the nine districts of the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt. It is administratively divided into Nasr City West/One (Gharb Madinet Nasr/awwal), and Nasr City East/Two. In 2021, Nasr City had a third district sub-divided from Nasr City East to be named either Nasr City Third or Al-Amal, as well as a qism named Nasr City Third.
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Worth seeing in and around Nasr City
9 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.
- 01Al-Azhar University
Al-Azhar University is a public university in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 970, and associated with the Al-Azhar Al-Sharif religious institution in Islamic Cairo, it is Egypt's oldest degree-granting university, and one of the oldest universities in the world.
2.9 km · public university in Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 02Cairo International Stadium
The Cairo International Stadium, formerly known as Nasser Stadium, is an Olympic-standard, multi-use stadium with an all-seated capacity of 75,000. The architect of the stadium is the German Werner March, who designed the Olympic Stadium in Berlin from 1934 to 1936.
3.4 km · Football Stadium in Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 03Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque
The Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque, also transliterated Rabi'a al-Adawiya, Rabaa el-Adawia or Rabaa el-Adaweya, is a mosque located on the northern edge of Nasr City district in eastern Cairo, Egypt. Completed in the c. 1970s, the mosque was named after the 8th-century Sufi saint Rabia al-Adawiya.
2.3 km · mosque in Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 04Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt, also called the Coptic Catholic Cathedral of Cairo, is a Coptic Catholic church building at 39 Mustafa Fahmi Street in Cairo, Egypt. The cathedral serves as the main church of the Catholic Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria which began in 1741 as an apostolic vicariate created by Pope Benedict XIV. It was elevated to its present status in 1895 under the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII with the papal bull “Christi Domini".
1.3 km · church in Cairo, Egypt · Wikipedia - 05Unknown Soldier Memorial
The Unknown Soldier Memorial in Cairo is a pyramid-shaped monument in Nasr City. Its construction was ordered by president Anwar Sadat in 1974 in honor of Egyptians and Arabs who lost their lives in the 1973 October War.
3.1 km · memorial in Egypt dedicated to the martyrs of October 1973 Arab-Israeli War · Wikipedia - 06Heliopolis War Cemetery
Heliopolis War Cemetery, which includes two relocated memorials - the Heliopolis Memorial and the Heliopolis Memorial, is a war cemetery and memorial in the Heliopolis district of Cairo in Egypt for Commonwealth personnel of British Indian Army who died in World War I and World War II. Of the 4,000 personals buried or commemorated here, 3727 are Indians - of whom nearly 2000 died in WWI and 1700 died in WWII. "Heliopolis Memorial" was relocate here and unveiled by the Indian Ambassador to Egypt in October 1980 after the original memorial at Port Tewfik at the South end of the Suez Canal was demolished due to severe damage during the 1967 Israeli-Egyptian conflict and 1973 Yom Kippur War.
3.2 km · cemetery in Egypt · Wikipedia - 07Sekka El Hadeed Stadium
El Sekka El Hadid Stadium, also known as Railway Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Cairo, Egypt. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home of El Sekka El Hadid.
3.7 km · building in Egypt · Wikipedia - 08Faculty of Medicine Al-Azhar University Girls Branch Cairo
Al-Azhar University Faculty of Medicine for Girls is a faculty of Al-Azhar University.
2 km · School of Medicine Al-Azhar · Wikipedia - 09Tiba Outlet Mall
Tiba Outlet Mall is the first outlet mall built in Egypt as part of Nasr City in Cairo. It was opened in 2011.
2.7 km · building in Africa · Wikipedia
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Getting to Nasr City
- Airports
- Cairo (CAI), 8 km · Sphinx (SPX), 43 km · Port Said (PSD), 161 km
- Al Jiza → Nasr City552 km · quickest by air, 8h 22m · $510–770
- Port Said → Nasr City164 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · E£255–340
- Alexandria → Nasr City183 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · E£305–410
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No local-transport research exists yet for Nasr 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 Nasr City. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAs of 2025 it has only seasonal charter services operated by Smartwings.
- Get inA cheaper option to get to Sharm by bus is to take a bus, a train, or a minibus to Suez and from the main bus station there, take the 11AM or the 1:20PM bus to Sharm.
- Get aroundBecause of problems with sexual harassment women travellers are advised only to take the small minibuses and buses which prohibit standing.
- Get aroundOn minibuses, the fare starts at LE5 and goes up to LE15 depending on the length of the route.
- Get aroundThere are actually two stations - the main bus station for the city buses, and the minibus station behind it.
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Next door to Nasr City
Nasr City is 4 km from Madīnat an Naşr, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Saint Fatima Schoolschool in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt1.1 km