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The palace includes 500 rooms and ballrooms, not to mention the parlors, with each room containing a minimum of 100 pieces of art.
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A bdeen Palace is considered one of the most sumptuous palaces in the world in terms of its adornments, paintings, and large number of clocks scattered in the parlors and wings, most of which are decorated with pure gold. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Built by Khedive Ismail, to become the official government headquarters instead of the Citadel, this palace was used as well for official events and ceremonies. Abdeen Palace was so called as it was built on the debris of a house owned by the Turkish Prince Abdeen Bey. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Construction started in 1863 and continued for 10 years but the palace was officially inaugurated in 1874. Erected on an area of 24 feddans, the palace was constructed | by the French Architect Rousseau along with a large number of Egyptian, Italian, French and Turkish decorators. However, the palace’s garden was added in 1921 by Khedive Tawfik on an area of 20 feddans. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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cost of building the palace reached LE 700,000 in addition to LE 2 million for its
furnishing. More money was also spent on the palace’s alteration, preservation
and maintenance by consecutive rulers. The palace includes 500 rooms and ballrooms, not to mention the parlors, with each room containing a minimum of 100 pieces of art. |
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| Although fully equipped to be used as a private residence it was rarely used for that purpose but mainly for official events. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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