Montaza Palace (Arabic: قصر المنتزه) (Asr el Montaza ) is a palace, museum and extensive gardens in the Montaza district of Alexandria,Egypt. Engineers built it on a low plateau east of central Alexandria overlooking a beach on the Mediterranean Sea.
History of Montaza palace
The Montazah Palace and Royal Gardens to the east of central Alexandria is beautifully maintained and features two royal palaces built during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The extensive Montaza Palace grounds first had the Salamlek Palace, built in 1892 by Khedive Abbas II, the last Muhammad Ali Dynasty ruler to hold the Khedive title over the Khedivate of Egypt and Sudan. Kings used it as a hunting lodge and residence for his companion.
The larger El-Haramlek Palace and royal gardens were added to the Palace grounds, being built by King Fuad I in 1932, as a summer palace. It is in a mixture of Ottoman and Florentine styles, with two towers. One of these towers rises distinctively high above with elaborated Italian Renaissance design details. The palace has long open arcades facing the sea along each floor.
President Anwar EL-Sadat renovated the original Salamlek Palace as an official presidential residence. Hosni Mubark (former president) used it most recently .
Public access
El-Montaza Park, the former expansive royal gardens are open as a public landscape park and forest reserve.
El-Haramlek—Montaza Palace is a public museum of the Muhammed Ali dynasty family history and objects d’art. El Salamlek Palace is now an adjacent hotel.
top view of the palace
Montaza Palace Gardens
People Know Montaza Royal Gardens by its beautiful gardens and royal palaces. Although the gardens are part of the more than 350-acre grounds of the great royal house known as the Montaza Palace, the Royal Garden occupies more than half of the property.
Then it is a place to discover and explore in great tranquility along with your walkthrough Alexandria. In these gardens, you will find a kingdom of nature worthy of admiration, where tall palm trees abound. In addition to a large number of gazelles, which walk through its extensions with great formality.
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