The Villa of Antoniadis, one of Alexandria’s most renowned sites, will play host to the activities from the 18th to 19th June 2010. Situation close to the Mahmoudia Canal, at the southern entrance of the city, the Villa is surrounded by some forty-eight hectares of greenery including the Antoniadis Garden, the Flower Garden and Botanical Gardens. During Sir John Antoniadis’ lifetime, it was a place for social gatherings and many reunions, before being donated to the Alexandria Town Council and used as a guest house to host visiting dignitaries to Egypt, including the King of Belgium, Greece, Italy, the Shah of Iran and Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, who was married to the Egyptian Princess Fawzia, the sister of King Farouk. The villa also hosted the signing ceremony of the 1936 agreement between Egypt and Britain, about Egypt independence, and it held the first meeting of the Egyptian Olympia committee.
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