✹The Shepheard hotel✹

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✹The Shepheard hotel✹




The Shepheard's Hotel of today built in 1957 on the corniche beside the Nile, is NOT the original hotel. The original, built in 1841 by Samuel Shepheard for British

passengers on their way to India & the Far East, was located near Opera Square, away from the river, on a site now occupied by a gas station! It was commandeered for Napolean's headquarters in 1849 & for a great many years was the social mecca of British Army officers. It was burned down in the civil unrest of 1952 when much of 'British' Cairo was destroyed. The original hotel was, in its Victorian elegant heyday,the place to be & be seen when in Cairo, if you were that way inclined. Its famous terrace, set with wicker chairs & tables, commanded a lofty & shaded view of the comings & goings on Ibrahim Pasha Street below.

the old Shepheard's and interiors inspired by another famous Cairo hotel of the period, the Windsor.
Michael Palin stayed there when filming the Egypt episode of his "Around the World in 80 Days" series, and numerous framed stills in the lobby attest to the many times the place has been used as a movie location. The desk clerk assured me "English Patient" author Michael Ondaatje stayed there when researching his novel."


VIDEO ABOUT THE HOTEL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6kuYNeyO0A

PS:
also we added some photos during WW2 OF THE AREA AROUND THE HOTEL

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