New Maryland Park ready to welcome back visitors

CAIRO – 23 March 2018: After undergoing some renovations, Maryland Park is now ready to welcome visitors and present them to its new facilities. The park is known as one of Heliopolis’s most famous attractions.

The park is now full of greeneries, with more than 1,000 new trees planted. The park has also added a dancing fountain that moves with to the rhythm of music; waterfalls; and tracks for people to enjoy walking or running on. There is also 7,000 square meters of entertainment activities underground, including nine cinema halls and an amusement park.


View from the top - Best Places Egypt Facebook Page

The park’s renovations are to be completed over three phases; so far, only the first phase is done. Entry tickets cost LE 20 ($1.13).


View from a different angle - Best Places Egypt Facebook Page

The residents of Heliopolis were very excited after they heard that the park had been developed and re-opened, according to the Best Places Egypt Facebook page. They had been concerned about the future of the park when the old trees were cut down.


View of the park - Best Places Egypt Facebook Page

A Facebook user commented, “I visited the park and it looks amazing. I hope the people and the government take good care of it.”

The park was established in the 1950s. Heliopolis residents bitterly watched as the grass covering the park’s 50 acres almost disappeared and the lake where they used to feed ducks and pelicans was drying up.


A statue of two farmers and a lamb at the Maryland Park before renovation in March 2015 – Yasmin Mostafa