Fustat Hills Park: Egypt’s Largest Green Garden in Historic Cairo

The Fustat Hills Park project, launched in 2019, seeks to revive Egypt’s rich heritage, preserve the area’s Islamic architecture, and transform the historic city into a tourist attraction. Cairo governorate handed over the Park to the Urban Development Authority in 2021 to begin implementing the comprehensive development plan for the park as part of the Fustat Hills Park project. On 7 July, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly emphasized the state’s strong commitment to the development project of Fustat Hills Park, and called for an acceleration of its implementation, urging intensified efforts to expedite its development.  “When the Prime Minister initially tasked us with working on the park, he told me that he considers it his personal project,” Khaled Sadek, Chairman of the Urban Development Fund’s Board of Directors, said in an interview. The Fustat Hills Park project seeks to repurpose a former waste landfill into one of the Middle East’s premier green spaces. Centrally located in the heart of old Cairo, the green space blends with the city’s rich history, nearing the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Ain El-Sira Lake (Ain Al-Hayah), the Religions Complex, and the Amr ibn Al-Aas…

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