Gezira Island, Cairo

The greenest place in all of Cairo, turned into a royal garden in the 19th century, is an island lying in the middle of the Nile between the center and the west coast.
Gezira - a paradise, without a single resident, but with enough attractions - an art center, a private sports club and the seat of the best football team in Cairo.
The beautiful Kasr El Nil Bridge leads to Gezira. In its western part, the Mukhtar Museum has opened its doors to visitors, dedicated to his work - works that tell about his cordiality and sense of humor. The opera house occupies the southern part of Gezira. A fire doomed the city when it destroyed the old opera house, and this continued until the 1980s, when the Japanese intervened and erected a beautiful, modernist-style, new white building, the current opera house.
Its neighbor is the Egyptian Modern Art Museum. Here you can see the works of Mahmoud Saeed, the surrealist Abd al-Hadi al-Ghazar and others. One of Cairo's local icons, the Tower of Cairo, is also located in Gezira. Its architectural appearance dates back to the Cold War of the 1950s, when Egypt was a battleground for US and Soviet ambitions. Sensing insidiousness and dirty deals, Nasser took the $ 1 million bribe offered to him for the purchase of American weapons and decided to erect a building symbolizing the middle finger, shown to the State Department.
In the center of Gezira, where the green areas are, today is Gezira Club, which the British built in the 80s of the XIX century as an officers' club.