Chapter 01
The library burned. The city kept reading.
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Destination · Egypt
Alexandria, Egypt
Every empire passed through. Some stayed.
A Mediterranean city that has been losing its great institutions for two thousand years and somehow never stops producing new ones.
12 chapters ahead
Climate
Mediterranean and salt-heavy — cooler and grayer than Cairo, with a winter that actually earns the name and a summer that draws half of Egypt to its shores.
Best season
November through February: the crowds have gone, the sea turns serious, and the city belongs to itself again.
Atmosphere
- coastal
- urban-dense
- old-world
- colonial-layered
- cosmopolitan
- literary
- culinary
- maritime
- walkable
- intense
The chapters
12 ways to get lost here
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Chapter 02
Five civilizations left their kitchens here.
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Chapter 03
Winter belongs to the Corniche.
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Chapter 04
The Greeks are gone. Their cafes remain.
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Chapter 05
The sea wall is the real living room.
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Chapter 06
Salt air does something to the pastry here.
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Chapter 07
Abu Mena draws pilgrims across the desert.
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Chapter 08
The apartment blocks remember who they were built for.
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Chapter 09
The tram runs on borrowed time, still running.
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Chapter 10
The Delta hides in plain sight.
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Chapter 11
Thessaloniki was built on the same blueprint.
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Chapter 12
The cosmopolitan city is a story it tells itself.
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Keep wandering
You’ve finished Alexandria. Where next?
Pull a thread at random, fall into the world map, or step back to the front door for the latest dispatches.