Landmarks & Culture

Landmarks of El Montazah I

Along the Corniche at Sidi Bishr and Miami: a mosque more than a century old, a well wrapped in legend, the graves of First World War soldiers, and the summer beaches.

A journey through time On the map

5 landmarks4 eras

All shiakhas5
Sidi Bishr Bahari5

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Antiquities1
Places of worship1
Beaches & open spaces3

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Resort and camp

1860–1950

The Sidi Bishr Mosque was renewed when a railway reached the area, postcards lined up the beach cabins, and in the First World War the British held Turkish prisoners in a camp among the dunes and palms.

Antiquities · Sidi Bishr BahariTurkish Martyrs’ Cemetery1915, the prisoner-of-war camp; the cemetery in 1941A cemetery laid out in 1941 for more than 500 Turkish soldiers held in the Sidi Bishr camp as prisoners of the First World War.

Emergency and hotline numbers
National government complaints line	16528
Alexandria Governorate operations room (from a landline)	114
El Montazah I child protection committee	035481536
Child helpline	16000
Police	122
Ambulance	123
Fire service	180
Gas emergency	129
Electricity faults	121