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The Palestine Hotel

A hotel built inside the Montazah gardens in 1964 to host the Arab League summit, on its own bay between the palace and the sea.

Contemporary Alexandria
1964
Opening hours
A working hotel, open at all hours, inside the garden wall
Tickets
The Montazah gardens entry fee to reach it
Administrative section
Toussoun — inside the Montazah gardens
Open in maps(External link)Its place in time

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Its place in time

Contemporary Alexandria · 1950 – today

After 1952 palaces and gardens opened to the public, and new towns and resorts grew on Alexandria’s edges.

  1. Abu Qir Bay & HarbourThe battle of 1798
  2. Nelson’s IslandCamp of the 1798 battle
  3. The Montazah GardensAbbas Helmi II’s summer retreat from 1892
  4. Salamlek Palace1892
  5. Haramlik Palace1932
  6. The Palestine Hotel1964
  • Ancient Alexandria331 BC – 7th century AD
  • The Islamic centuries7th century – 1805
  • The Mohamed Ali revival1805 – 1860
  • The cosmopolitan city1860 – 1950
  • Contemporary Alexandria1950 – today
Haramlik Palace, its ornamented façades and sea-facing tower seen from inside the Montazah Gardens
Before it in timeHaramlik Palace1932

Highlights

  • 1The private bay in front of it
  • 2The horizontal 1960s architecture
  • 3The view of Montazah Palace from the garden
  • 4Its link to the 1964 Arab summit

The story

  1. The hotel was raised in 1964 inside the Montazah gardens to house the Arab heads of state at the summit held in Alexandria — a building for a political occasion before it became a public hotel.

  2. Its architecture is modern in the manner of the 1960s: a low horizontal block following the line of the shore, deliberately not competing in height with the royal palace behind it, with nearly every room opening onto the bay.

  3. It stands inside the garden wall, so reaching it means passing the Montazah gates: part of the royal site rather than a building apart from it.

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