


NEIGHBORHOOD B: Heliopolis ("city of the sun")!
The city was established by Belgian Baron Empain in 1905 after he purchased a plot of desert to found the Cairo Electric Railway and Heliopolis Oases Company. With broad boulevards, gardens, necessary infrastructure, and modern conveniences, Heliopolis was purposed to be a "city of luxury and leisure".The Korba district is the old center of Heliopolis with beautiful Andalusian and Moorish style architecture and churches and cultural centers as remnants of cosmopolitan, multi-cultural age in which the "city of the sun" was founded.
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