Cairo
This palace was built between 1908 and 1910 for Prince Youssef Kamal of the Muhammad Ali family, a patron of the arts who founded the School of Fine Arts in…
This palace was built between 1908 and 1910 for Prince Youssef Kamal of the Muhammad Ali family, a patron of the arts who founded the School of Fine Arts in Cairo. It was designed by the Italian architect Antonio Lasciac. Inside are a hall decorated with Ottoman tiles and marble, and rooms in European and Far Eastern styles. It stands in grounds of fourteen feddans in al-Matariya and is now the headquarters of the Desert Research Center.