Cairo Square

There was a monastery of the daughters of God. The monastery was closed during the revolution and finally destroyed under the Directory. Built in 1276, it was intended for street girls who sold bodies, and prostitution flourished that year, but little has changed since then.

On the square under an unusual facade in the pseudo-Egyptian style with three heads of the goddess Hathor (a sign of the conquest of Egypt by Napoleon), there is an arched entrance to a string of galleries called “Cairo Arcade” (Passage du Caire), which has 6 entrances and includes 3 galleries, the total length of which is 360 meters and a width of 2.6 meters.

Although well preserved, it is the oldest passage in Paris. The passenger was built in 1798 not so that the buyer could escape from the dirt flying from under the wheels of horse-drawn carriages and hide from the rain, but in imitation of the Cairo market Khan al-Khalili.