Pietro Avoscani

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Pietro Avoscani (born 1816 in Livorno; died 1 March 1891 in Alexandria) was an Italian architect. He emigrated to Egypt in 1837.^[1]

The Ras el-Tin Palace in 1931, on the Mediterranean coast in Alexandria, Egypt. The royal summer palace, built in 1847, and used as such until the last king's abdication in 1953.

Buildings

Palace of Gabbar, 1846–48
Ras el-Tin Palace, 1847^[1]
Palaces of Abbasiyya and Hilmiyya 1849
Palaces of Gazira and Chubra, 1860–61
Khedivial Opera House, 1869
International Market of Minia al-Bassal/Bourse of Minet el Bassal, 1871
Zizinia theatre/Theatre Zizinia, 1863^[2]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Pallini, Cristina. "Italian Architects and Modern Egypt" (PDF). MIT. p. 6. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
^ Khalil 2009, p. 40.

Sources

Khalil, Mohamed Ali Mohamed (2009). The Italian Architecture in Alexandria, Egypt (the conservation of the Italian residential buildings) (M.A.). Kore University of Enna. Retrieved 23 August 2012.

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