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Behind Midan Opera car park, a minibus depot and split-level thoroughfares render Midan Ataba just as Yusuf Idris described it in The Dregs of the City : "a madhouse of pedestrians and automobiles, screeching wheels, howling klaxons, the whistles of bus conductors and roaring motors". Originally called the Square of Green Steps, Ataba should rightly be renamed the Square of Flyovers. There is one attraction, however, that you might want to visit, the Post Office Museum on the second floor of the Central Post Office (daily except Fri 9am-4pm; GBPE2; tickets sold in the post office itself, near the commemorative stamps office, then go upstairs through the guarded entrance on the east side of the building). The museum houses exhibits from Egypt's postal service through the ages, with stamps galore (including the rare Suez Canal commemorative issue), Egypt's oldest mailboxes, and a picture of the Sphinx and Pyramids composed entirely of stamps bearing images of the same. The minibus terminal is around the back of the multistorey car park. From Midan Ataba you can also take a number of walking routes into Islamic Cairo .
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