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Bookmark & shareCairo has plenty of fine 19th-century buildings, modern art and sculpture, precious green spaces and ancient districts (Islamic Cairo is a Unesco World Heritage site). Then there's the Pharaonic sites that stretch south of the city, not to mention Those Pyramids and That River.
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