Downtown DistrictAlexandria Governorate
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Sources

Image credits

Every photograph and piece of music on this site and in its films has a declared source. Those from Wikimedia Commons and public archives carry licences that permit reuse in exchange for crediting their authors — this page is that credit, and the “Image credits” link under each photograph and film leads here. Those supplied by the district whose source has not been recorded yet are listed here too, with no claim made for them.

Photographs with a recorded licence

District photographs — source pending

These images were supplied with the district’s material without a recorded photographer or licence. Until that is completed the site claims no licence for them, and each carries a line saying its source is pending. The district must establish its ownership of, or licence for, each one before final publication.

Landmarks with no photograph yet

We hold no photograph of these that we can publish here, so they appear as a line drawing made for this site rather than as an image that might misrepresent what you would find on the ground:

  • Gamal Abdel Nasser Hospital
  • El Mowasah University Hospital
  • Alexandria Main University Hospital
  • University Teaching Hospital
  • One-Day Surgery Centre
  • El Hadara University Hospital
  • El Shatby University Children’s Hospital
  • El Shatby University Women’s Hospital
  • Dar El Welada Maternity Hospital (La Maternité)
  • The Coptic Hospital
  • Ahmed Maher Hospital
  • El Romani Hospital
  • Nour El Islam Hospital
  • Hesab Hospital
  • Zamzam Hospital
  • Sahla Hospital
  • Isis Specialist Hospital
  • Anba Takla Hospital
  • New Anba Takla Hospital
  • New El Salama Hospital
  • Ayadi El Mostakbal Oncology Hospital
  • Consulate General of Turkey
  • Consulate General of Libya
  • Consulate General of Saudi Arabia
  • Honorary Consulate of Denmark
  • Honorary Consulate General of Norway
  • Honorary Consulate of Germany
  • Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China
  • Consulate of Finland
  • Consulate General of Lebanon
  • Wholesale Market Police Point
  • El Ibrahimia Police Point
  • El Shatby Police Point
  • Port Said Street Police Point
  • El Hadara Police Point
  • Souq Shidia Police Point
  • Gheit El Saidi Police Point
  • El Zahraa Police Point
  • Nadi El Seid Police Point
  • Ghorbal Police Point
  • Sherif El Mesalla Police Point
  • Misr Station Police Point
  • Amiri Hospital Police Point
  • El Shohada Police Point
  • Amir Cinema
  • Metro Cinema
  • Ferial Cinema
  • Radio Cinema
  • Strand Cinema
  • Rio Cinema
  • Fox Cinema — City Centre
  • Mohamed Abdel Wahab Theatre
  • Bayram El Tonsi Theatre
  • El Horreya Centre for Creativity
  • Abdel Moneim Gaber Complex Theatre
  • Teatro El Nil
  • YMCA Theatre

The films: their pictures and sound

The district films and the landmark documentaries are cut from freely licensed and public-domain pictures, and the films themselves are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. The documentaries’ maps are drawn from © OpenStreetMap contributors data (ODbL), with qism boundaries from geoBoundaries (CC BY 3.0 IGO).

Hay Wasat — The old heart of Alexandria

  1. Ramleh tram station — an old postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  2. The Roman Theatre at Kom El Dikka — Cmroueche (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  3. Saad Zaghloul Square — an archive photograph — Fortepan / Inkey Tibor (ID 93140) (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  4. Saad Zaghloul Square and the Corniche — Francisco Anzola (CC BY 2.0)
  5. Ramleh Station and the al-Qaid Ibrahim Mosque — R Prazeres (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  6. Sunset over Saad Zaghloul Square — Marsupium (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  7. The Cecil Hotel — TheEgyptian (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  8. The Cecil Hotel on the sea front — an archive photograph — Matson Collection (Public domain)
  9. The Windsor Palace Hotel — Nehal21 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  10. The Raml tram — Mark Fischer (CC BY-SA 2.0)
  11. Saad Zaghloul Square by the sea — Dedo mohammed (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  12. The statue of Nubar Pasha before the opera house — Ahmed Younis Sif Saad (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  13. The ruins of Kom El Dikka — Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (CC BY 2.0)
  14. The Graeco-Roman Museum — an old postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  15. Alexandria National Museum — Papillus (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  16. From the National Museum’s collection — Amr F.Nagy (Public domain)
  17. Sayed Darwish Theatre — Alexandria Opera House — لا روسا (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  18. Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue — Nabi Daniel Street — Roland Unger (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  19. Inside the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue — Marsupium (CC BY 4.0)
  20. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina from the sea — Filip Maljković from Pancevo, Serbia (CC BY-SA 2.0)
  21. The slanting roof of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina — Argenberg (CC BY 2.0)
  22. The Cavafy Museum — Asiatologist (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  23. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina on the Eastern Harbour — cheesy42 (CC BY 2.0)
  24. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina at sunset — Luai akl (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  25. The Museum of Fine Arts — Roland Unger (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  26. El Horreya Road in El Ibrahimiya — Abdelrhman 1990 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  27. The façade of Misr Station — Ocean Star (CC BY 3.0)
  28. The train shed of Misr Station — Argenberg (CC BY 2.0)
  29. On the platform at Misr Station — Emoo Shawky (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  30. A train at Misr Station — Hatem Moushir (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  31. Inside Misr Station — timsdad (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  32. The streets of Moharram Bek — Islam90 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  33. The falls in Shallalat Gardens — Mohamed gamal12 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  34. Shallalat Gardens — TheEgyptian (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  35. A path through Shallalat Gardens — TheEgyptian (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sound

El Attarin — A qism of Hay Wasat

  1. Ramleh tram station — an old postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  2. Ramleh Station and the al-Qaid Ibrahim Mosque — R Prazeres (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  3. Saad Zaghloul Square and the Corniche — Francisco Anzola (CC BY 2.0)
  4. Saad Zaghloul Square — an archive photograph — Fortepan / Inkey Tibor (ID 93140) (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  5. The Cecil Hotel — TheEgyptian (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  6. The Cecil Hotel on the sea front — an archive photograph — Matson Collection (Public domain)
  7. The Windsor Palace Hotel — Nehal21 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  8. The Raml tram — Mark Fischer (CC BY-SA 2.0)
  9. The Roman Theatre at Kom El Dikka — Cmroueche (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  10. The Graeco-Roman Museum — an old postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  11. The statue of Nubar Pasha before the opera house — Ahmed Younis Sif Saad (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  12. Sayed Darwish Theatre — Alexandria Opera House — لا روسا (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  13. Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue — Nabi Daniel Street — Roland Unger (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  14. Inside the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue — Marsupium (CC BY 4.0)
  15. The Cavafy Museum — Asiatologist (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  16. Sunset over Saad Zaghloul Square — Marsupium (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sound

Bab Sharqi — A qism of Hay Wasat

  1. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina from the sea — Filip Maljković from Pancevo, Serbia (CC BY-SA 2.0)
  2. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina on the Eastern Harbour — cheesy42 (CC BY 2.0)
  3. The slanting roof of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina — Argenberg (CC BY 2.0)
  4. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina at sunset — Luai akl (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  5. Alexandria National Museum — Papillus (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  6. From the National Museum’s collection — Amr F.Nagy (Public domain)
  7. El Horreya Road in El Ibrahimiya — Abdelrhman 1990 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  8. The falls in Shallalat Gardens — Mohamed gamal12 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  9. Shallalat Gardens — TheEgyptian (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  10. A path through Shallalat Gardens — TheEgyptian (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sound

Moharram Bek — A qism of Hay Wasat

  1. Misr Railway Station — Ashashyou (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  2. The façade of Misr Station — Ocean Star (CC BY 3.0)
  3. Inside Misr Station — timsdad (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  4. The train shed of Misr Station — Argenberg (CC BY 2.0)
  5. On the platform at Misr Station — Emoo Shawky (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  6. A train at Misr Station — Hatem Moushir (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  7. The Museum of Fine Arts — Roland Unger (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  8. The streets of Moharram Bek — Islam90 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Sound

The Alexandria Tram — First run: January 1863

  1. The Raml tram — Mark Fischer (CC BY-SA 2.0)
  2. The tracks at Raml Station, 2023 — Abdelrhman 1990 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  3. Ramleh station — an old postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  4. Ramleh station and the Italian Consulate — a postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  5. Ramleh station — a postcard, c. 1904 — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  6. “La Gare de Ramleh” — a written, hand-coloured postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  7. Ramleh station street — a postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  8. Ramleh station street, with a tram — a postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  9. Ramleh station and its trams — a postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  10. Boulevard de Ramleh and its trams — a coloured postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  11. The Ramleh terminus and its double-deck trams — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  12. Ramleh Station Square — a postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  13. The blue double-deck tram on the Raml line, 2012 — Faris El-Gwely (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  14. The blue Raml tram at the station, 2025 — Bilal Detailz (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  15. Blue-line trams at Raml Station, 2010 — Roland Unger (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  16. Saad Zaghloul Square today — Maher27777 (Public domain)
  17. Alexandria National Museum — Papillus (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Sound

The Cavafy House — The poet’s home from 1907 to 1933

  1. Cavafy as a young man, with cane and hat — 1896 — Fettel and Bernard (Public domain)
  2. The Cavafy House building on its street — Roland Unger (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  3. Cavafy in Alexandria, c. 1929 — Unknown photographer (signed: Pacino) (Public domain)
  4. Ramleh tram station — an old postcard — Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) (Public domain)
  5. The entrance to Cavafy’s flat — Nableezy (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  6. The bedroom in the museum — 1995 — DIMSFIKAS (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  7. The flat’s corridor — Noname11115 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  8. The Cavafy Museum — Asiatologist (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  9. A room of the museum, with the poet’s portrait — Roland Unger (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  10. Cavafy’s manuscript of “Candles” — Constantine P. Cavafy (Public domain)
  11. Manuscript of “Ptolemaic Glory”, c. 1910 — Constantine P. Cavafy (Public domain)
  12. “Ithaka” as first printed, in the Alexandrian review Grammata, 1911 — Constantine P. Cavafy (Public domain)
  13. Cavafy’s manuscript of “Far Away” — Constantine P. Cavafy (Public domain)
  14. A bust of Cavafy in his flat — Nableezy (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  15. Manuscript of “Desires”, c. 1904 — Constantine P. Cavafy (Public domain)
  16. The study in the museum — 1995 — DIMSFIKAS (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Sound

The line drawings

The line drawings used for service icons, and for landmarks without a photograph, were made for this site and belong to the district.