- Zaafarana palace
The palace is located in
Cairo ,Egypt . NearAbbasyia district at Khalifa Maamon road.Now it is inside the main campus of theAin Shams University .History
It was one of the royal palaces before becoming the administration building of
Ain Shams University .It is said that King
Farouk was born in this palace.The university is now located in the area of the Zaafaran Palace, built during the regime of
Khedive Ismail . The Palace was so named because the area surrounding it was famous for saffron (in Arabic Zaafaran) plantations. The Palace was used to host the administration offices of the Egyptian University when it was established in 1925. It was used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (as a guest house) for accommodating important visitors. The palace also witnessed the signing of the 1936 Treaty between Egypt and Great Britain (seeAnglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936). Finally in 1952, it came to be used as the administrative headquarters of Ain Shams University.External link to photo
* [http://net.shams.edu.eg/ Official website of Ain Shams University]
Internal link
* See
Palaces of Egypt References
About the history of the palace. [http://net.shams.edu.eg/History.asp]
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