“This city looks fasinating from above than what one sees from below.” especially from the top of the Cairo Tower.
Cairo Tower was built between the years of 1956 and 1961 with the help of more than 500 Egyptian workers The Tower was built out of concrete and iron in order to depict the lotus, a flower which the ancient Egyptians used to produce papyrus. The length of the tower is 187 meters which is 43 meters higher than the great pyramid of Cheapos. It is located in the middle of Cairo at the edge of Zamalek Island.airo Tower was built in the reign offormer Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. It cost 6 million pounds at the time it was built in the late 60s. This sum of money was given to the Egyptian government by USA to stop the Egyptians from supporting the Algerian uprising against the French occupation.