C Cairo (sometimes called: “Al-Jazirah Tower”) is a tower located in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. It was built between 1956 and 1961 of reinforced concrete on the design of the Egyptian lotus flower, designed by engineer Naoum Shabib, and is located in the heart of Cairo on the island of Zamalek in the Nile River . Its height reaches 187 meters, which is 43 meters higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza. At the top of the Cairo Tower there is a tourist restaurant on a revolving platform that rotates the restaurant's diners to see the landmarks of Cairo from all sides. The tower is one of the most prominent features of Cairo and consists of 16 floors and stands on a base of Aswan granite stones that the ancient Egyptians previously used in building their temples and tombs. Television, the Sphinx, the Nile, Salah El-Din Castle, Al-Azhar and on the 14th floor a restaurant.
The Cairo Tower was built during the era of President Gamal Abdel Nasser and it cost 6 million Egyptian pounds to build. At the time, the United States had given it to Egypt with the aim of influencing its position in support of the Algerian cause against the French occupation. About this, military historian Jamal Hammad says that when the tower was built, it had two names. The Americans called it “Abdel Nasser’s Fork,” while the Egyptians called it “Roosevelt’s Endowment.” It was not the tallest tower in the world at that time, but it comes after the Eiffel Tower.
The Cairo Tower was renovated in a work that lasted for about two years from 2006 until 2008 by the Egyptian Arab Contractors Company. The process of restoration and repair cost about 15 million pounds, which includes the treatment and restoration of the tower’s concrete and the addition of 3 floors of metal structures below the tower, which is in the body of the tower and another floor above the main entrance The construction of an emergency staircase and an elevator for visitors, the development of the entrance to the tower, the finishing of the facades of the tower and the addition of new external lighting.
The Cairo Tower is one of the prominent landmarks in Cairo, where many tourists wish to visit it, in order to enjoy looking at its distinguished design, which symbolizes the ancient Egyptian civilization. Their temples and tombs, and at the present time, the increasing number of people flocking to this tower, especially visitors from Arab countries, who wish to climb to its surface, which is characterized by its wonderful view of Cairo, where the period of climbing to the surface does not take more than seconds, through which the tourist can From seeing many important places in Egypt such as the TV building, the Sphinx, the Nile, the Citadel of Salah El-Din, Al-Azhar, and the pyramids, in addition to the ability of visitors to eat lunch in the restaurants available in this tower, the most important of which is the circular restaurant located on the 14th floor, which features By rotating around a fulcrum, the visitor was able to see Cairo, and it contains nineteen tables, each of which can accommodate five people, and the possibility of enjoying different types of juices and drinks from the top of the tower.