Downtown’s two main streets, Talaat Harb and Qasr El Nil Sts, intersect at the roundabout of Talaat Harb Sq, where cars whizz around a statue of tarboosh-sporting Mr Harb, founder of the national bank.
Qasr El Nil St boasts some particularly fine architecture, notably the Moorish Italian Insurance building, the neoclassical facade of the Cairo Stock Exchange and the Cosmopolitan Hotel, a short block off Qasr El Nil in a palm-tree-lined pedestrianised alley.
