Rosetta - Houses

Rosetta preserves many handsome old houses of the 17th-19th C., which bear witness to the prosperity and high standards of comfort and good taste of its citizens in the town's heyday. These tall buildings of four or five stories have brick built facades in mosaic patterns of black and red, often with ancient stone built into the walls; the windows have richly decorated lattice screens (mushrabiyas). The following houses are particularly fine: El-Fatari (1620), Arab Keli (18th C.: now a museum) and El-Amaciali (early 19th C.).