Cairo Governorate, in cooperation with the Ministry of Antiquities, has succeeded in completing 90% of Tahrir square renovation works.
The Egyptian government plans to turn the 150-year-old square into an open-air museum.
The government's strategy aims at beautifying the famous site, which has witnessed many historical and political events in the country’s modern era, through changing the appearance of the main buildings and embellishing it with a host of archeological items, under the supervision of the project's general engineering consultant Waleed Mansour.
Al-Tahrir Square development project
The square renovations include the roundabout at the square center, known as "Al-Sanya" in Arabic, where a pharaonic obelisk is installed, in addition to four ram-headed sphinxes, surrounded by a circular fountain.
The 17-meter-tall, 90-ton Ramses II era obelisk, was found in the form of eight large blocks at San El-Hagar archaeological site in the city of Zagazig.
The four sphinxes were transferred from Luxor’s Karnak Temple.
The square will also be decorated with many pharaonic-era plants such as date trees, olive trees, fig-trees, and carob trees, in addition to papyrus, for which the ancient Egyptian civilization was famous.
Al-Tahrir Square renovation in full swing
Nearly more than fifty engineers and a thousand workers have been working around the clock in a bid to finish the renovation of the famous landmark.
The project is set to be finished by the end of this month.
In the same context, Cairo Governor Khaled Abdel Aal inspected earlier today the square ongoing development works after the installation of the pharaonic obelisk.
He ordered the speedy completion of Tahrir square surrounding buildings coating.
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