The Baron Empain Palace "Qasr el Baron" as we call it in Egypt.
It is one is a distinctive , historic mansion and very famous places in Heliopolis, a suburb northeast of central Cairo, Egypt.
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The palace - morning view. |
The palace was designed by French architect Alexandre Marcel and decorated by Georges-Louis Claude. Baron Empain ordered them to build huge Indian-style palace ,as he lived many years in India.He was fond of ancient mythology,so was his decision to search for the oldest historic place ,he chose the cradle of ancient civilizations ,he choose Egypt -Mother of the World -.
Baron has chosen this site in the middle of the desert ,Close to Cairo .He began to establish his palace according to classic Belgian-style,in front ,in addition to large areas of magnificent gardens.
After five years the architectural masterpiece came out from beneath the Sahara.It was a wonderful mix of the European architecture and art of Indian architecture.
This architectural masterpiece palace is unique of its kind on the grounds, that it is only palace in the world ,which escapes him in the sun all day .It is a lavish palace ,it has a tower going on a mobile base , revolves full circle every hour ,to allow the tags to see what sitting around in all directions .
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The room of the wife |
Description of the Palace
The palace lies on an area of 125 thousand m .The outer palace balcony's mounted on Statues of Indian elephants Ivory spreads inside and outside the palace .Windows up and down with Indian,and Buddhism statues , Inside the palace like a museum featuring antiques and statues of gold and platinum .
Inside the palace there is an old archaeological clock Unparalleled found only in Buckingham Palace.
The mansion consists of two floors and basement [ Crypt] and a large tower .The palace was designed in a way makes the sun never sets on its rooms forever .
It will be very long to describe that palace so I will describe the Mystery of Palace [ The Cursed Palace]
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The palace at night |
The Mystery of Palace [ The Cursed Palace]
The Bewitched Room The pink room with red mirrors :
The room of Baron Empain ' wife the pink room in the Basement of The palace,it is the entrance to the crypt to the Basilica Church . He did not permit any body to enter it even his daughter or sister. The umors said that after the death of Baron Empain [ all his family died before him],the mirrors converted to blood on the walls,because the spirit of the Baroness, "Whelan" and his daughter "Miriam"got rested after the death of the harsh Baron.
the Baroness, "Whelan" the sister of Baron Empain :
One of reasons that led to the increase of the Mystery of the palace was her death fell down from the balcony of her room ,while her brother was revolving in his tower and he Baron could not help her .At that moment the base stopped turning .That was the first spark of the stories of the ghosts . The rumors are telling that the Spirit of the Baroness, "Helena" Schtt of the delay of Baron to save her and that was the cause of the breakdown of the Revolving tower [ its rotation stopped from that time until the death of Baron Empain in 1928] .
Some rumors tell that the people are hearing voices of quarrel between the Baron and his sister and some times soft talking of the father and daughter
Stories are telling that Baron Empain Has succeeded after the death of his sister in the preparation of her soul to apologize for lack of initiative quickly to save her . He feels that the spirit of his sister did not accept his apologizing,so he entered a period of terrible depression finally led to his death and the daughter also.
"Miriam" the daughter of Baron EmpainShe was hit with poliomyelitis shortly after her birth .Because of the bad treatment of her father she was sitting in some rooms in the crypt alone and feel happiness and she was telling that she was with a nice friend .That was the start of Satanism [ Devil worship] .
After some time Miriam was found dumped on her face and dead ,nobody knows the reason
Baron Empain The Founder of Heliopolis
He was a wealthy Belgian engineer,Entrepreneur ,financier, industrialist,as well as an amateur Egyptologist.
Édouard Empain arrived in Egypt in January 1904, intending to rescue one of the projects of his company .
King of France granted the title of a baron in recognition of his efforts in the establishment of the Paris Metro.
He died in Belgium ,and was buried in Egypt in the bottom of the Basilica Church which was linked by palace with underground tunnel
Of his projects outside Egypt : he created Bank of Brussels in Belgium.
This past is so long so I will add some picture for the palace only.
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MR
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