Yesterday evening I could finally find the time to visit the Citadel Music Festival and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Musical experience aside, it was great to be in these wonderful surroundings at night, an opportunity that does not come by very often.
The monuments are beautifully lit for the occasion and the atmosphere is festive, warm and relaxed. If you drive there, you can bring the car up to the parking lot just in front of the entrance of the Citadel taking the first ramp on the Salah Salem Rd. (sign for the Military Museum). You enter from the main entrance and after a security check you are free to wander inside the huge area (no access to the Mohamed Ali and Nasir Mohamed mosques, but the beautiful mosque of Sulayman Pasha was open yesterday). There is no entrance fee and you are free to attend any of the concerts on the program or indeed, as I did, spend a little time in each of them. The cafeteria is open and in addition there are several stands selling water, soft drinks, chips and biscuits.
I do hope this becomes a regular yearly feature of Cairo's cultural life and I think we shall be really thankful to everybody who made this event possible.
The Citadel Music Festival runs until Thursday, August 20 and you find the program of the next evenings here.
Whether you think you'll like the music on the program or not, this is going to be a wonderful night out.
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