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Baron Empain’s Palace

An almost forgotten, and possibly haunted, Hindu masterpiece in Cairo.

Baron Empain was not born in the country of Egypt, but moved there from Belgium when he fell in love with the culture.  Being a real estate investor, he bought up large areas of land and built a home for himself and his family in the middle of what he sought to make into a massive urban development project.  Though he would eventually leave and Empain’s Palace pass beyond his family’s hands, it still stands in Cairo as an amazing historical building with a unique Hindu design.  It is also rum

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