After a 5-year renovation that finally paid off, the Royal Jewellery Museum of Alexandria reopened to tourists in April 2010. Housed in an exquisitely decorated villa that used to belong to King Farouk’s first wife, the museum is a real gem, displaying a magnificent collection of glittering artefacts that belonged to the excessive and extravagant Egyptian monarch and his family. You have to go there to see what excess really means; garden tools studded with diamonds are just a taste.

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