Maadi is a leafy and once suburban district in the Southern Area of Cairo, Egypt, on the east bank of the Nile about 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) upriver from downtown Cairo. The modern extensions north east and east of Maadi, New Maadi and Zahraa al-Maadi are administratively part of the Basatin district.
Maadi
The Maadi Grand Mall
Shuman sunengine in Maadi on the March 1916 cover of The Electrical Experimenter
A corniche is a road on the side of a cliff or mountain, with the ground rising up on one side of the roadway and falling away on the other. The English language has adopted the word from the French term route à corniche or "road on a ledge", itself derived from the Italian cornice, for "ledge".
A corniche carrying New York State Route 218 along Storm King Mountain can be seen on the left from across the Hudson River
The Hawk's Nest is part of a corniche which carries New York State Route 97 above the Delaware River
The corniche at Alexandria by sunset, stretching along the city's residential coast line
Corniche Damietta