Modern Alexandria
A City of Layers
On Egypt’s northern shore, Alexandria still faces the Mediterranean as it has for over two millennia. But where once stood the palaces of Ptolemies and the beacon of the Pharos, today there are cafés, trams, and streets alive with the pulse of a modern city. Alexandria has always been a place of meeting—and it remains so, where history, memory, and daily life cross like tides.
French balconies lean over wide boulevards, relics of colonial days. Art Deco façades stand beside Ottoman mansions, while fishermen mend their nets just as they did in ancient times. Along the Corniche, traffic rushes by as the sea crashes against the stones—a rhythm both ancient and immediate.
Experience It
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, built at the dawn of the 21st century, rises near the site of the lost library—its glass façade like the eye of the sun gazing toward the sea. Within its walls, scholars and travelers gather once again, continuing the city’s role as a beacon of knowledge. Yet a few streets away, the old souks wind as they always have, their stalls bright with spice, fabric, and voices from every corner of the city.
Modern Alexandria is not just its monuments, old or new. It is the sea breeze at dusk, the smell of fresh coffee on Stanley Bridge, the laughter in seaside gardens, and the call of gulls above the harbor. It is a city of memory, yes—but also of living rhythms, of people who carry its spirit forward with every tide.
Experience a city of history and relevance.