Alexandria, Egypt
Museum in Alexandria, Egypt
On a short street off Fouad Street near the opera house, in the Attarin quarter, is the flat where the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 to 1933) spent the last twenty-five years of his life and wrote many of the poems, Ithaca among them, that made him one of the great poets of the 20th century. The street was called Lepsius in his day and now bears his name. The flat first opened as a museum in 1992, later closed, and was restored by the Onassis Foundation with the Hellenic Foundation for Culture, reopening on 11 May 2024. The rooms have been rearranged to evoke the home as he knew it, with furniture, photographs, books and manuscripts, and his poems in many languages, Arabic included. It is a short, intimate visit that gives a feel for cosmopolitan early 20th-century Alexandria, when Greeks, Italians, Armenians and Egyptians lived side by side.
Thirty minutes to an hour is enough. It is on the first floor of an old building, reached by stairs. Check opening times before you go, as they can change. Combine it with a stroll along Fouad Street and the nearby Attarin market.
Hours and prices change — check before you go. Source: en.wikipedia.org
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