{"id":822,"date":"2009-10-30T22:53:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T18:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=822"},"modified":"2009-10-31T15:38:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T11:38:40","slug":"around-the-qasr-al-baron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Around the Qasr al-Baron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to the Cairo airport yesterday I stopped in the Heliopolis neighborhood that is home the the Baron Palace. It is a Cambodian-Hindu-temple-inspired mansion that is now gutted down to the stone and metal and an almost ruin. Below is a photographic study of it taken from the outside of the property fence. I don&#8217;t think that access is allowed to anyone, it&#8217;s very public and there is a guard on duty. Of course I would have paid $100 to be able to roam around inside but the guard looked pretty serious. The rest of the photographs that follow are from the surrounding neighborhood. I didn&#8217;t get to spend enough time exploring Heliopolis since I had to get to the airport, but it is an interesting place having been constructed as a New Cairo in the very early 20th century and has been given its own architectural stylistic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essential-architecture.com\/STYLE\/STY-056.htm\">classification<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe castle itself was originally built in 1910 for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baron_Empain\">Baron Empain<\/a> designed by the French architect Alexander Marcel. The Baron and his companies are responsible for the construction of the greater Heliopolis development.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.08.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.09.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.10.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.12.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.15.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.19.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.29.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.30.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.38.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.39.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.42.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.50.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.57.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.58.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.26.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.01.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.03.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.04.jpg\" \/><br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009.10.29.05.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to the Cairo airport yesterday I stopped in the Heliopolis neighborhood that is home the the Baron Palace. It is a Cambodian-Hindu-temple-inspired mansion that is now gutted down to the stone and metal and an almost ruin. Below is a photographic study of it taken from the outside of the property fence. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=822\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Around the Qasr al-Baron&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}