Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism&antiquities is performing maintenance work on walls of external terraces surrounding Baron Palace

CAIRO - 24 January 2021: Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and antiquities is performing maintenance work on the walls of the external terraces surrounding the building of the Baron Empain Palace, which showed traces of some moisture and salts, started today.

 

Engineer Hisham Samir, Assistant Minister of Tourism and Antiquities for Antiquities and Museums Projects and Supervisor of the Historic Cairo Project, stated that on Saturday, January 23, the metal scaffolding was completed by the construction company and under the supervision of specialists at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and the technical measures followed to remove salts and ventilate the walls.

 

 The assistant minister emphasized that all walls of the palace are completely safe and secure, and the visit to the palace continues, and that the moisture that appeared at the bottom end of the walls of the external terraces surrounding the building of the palace were because of the closeness of these walls to the garden, which was irrigated by flooding in previous periods. He added that this  was changed to drip irrigation system.  During the restoration project, the cultivated areas were kept at safe distances to preserve the walls until the soil and building material were completely dry.

 

 He added that due to the saturation of the ground layers with water, some salts appeared below the fences near the garden and are now treated first-hand, in succession, until they cease to appear by appropriate technical methods.