Explore Egypt

The 15th-century Qaitbay-era coastal fort where French soldiers unearthed the Rosetta Stone in 1799.

A restored Ottoman merchant mansion of patterned brick and carved mashrabiya, now a museum of Rashid's golden age.

A rare townscape of 17th–19th-century brick houses with timber balconies, the largest concentration of Ottoman domestic architecture in Egypt.

A boat ride to the river's mouth shows the sharp line where the muddy Nile current collides with the blue Mediterranean.

A surviving Ottoman rice mill of timber and stone, a glimpse of the river trade that once made Rashid rich.

A vast 17th-century mosque whose forest of mismatched antique columns and twin minarets crowns the old town.

Simple Nile-mouth eateries plating grey mullet and bouri grilled in the local style, eaten with the river in view.