The Salamlek Palace was built in 1892 for Khedive Abbas II as a hunting lodge. King Fuad I built the El-Haramlek Palace in 1932 as a summer palace. The infobox credits Hassan Pasha El-Adawi as architect, and the text does not say which building he designed. The infobox calls the style Italian Renaissance, while the text describes Haramlek as a mixture of Ottoman and Florentine styles, with two towers and long open arcades facing the sea. The article gives no materials or building dimensions.
The former royal gardens covered about 300 acres (120 ha) on a plateau overlooking a Mediterranean beach. Anwar El-Sadat renovated Salamlek as a presidential residence, and Hosni Mubarak used it most recently. The text also says it is now a hotel.
The Egyptian government owns it. Haramlek is a public museum, and the grounds are El-Montaza Park.
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