Fouad Street, one of Alexandria's principal historic thoroughfares, photographed at dusk with a warm purple-pink sunset sky. A taxi passes beneath street lights as a prominent domed neoclassical building — characteristic of Alexandria's late 19th- and early 20th-century European-influenced architecture — rises above the surrounding multi-storey residential and commercial blocks. Alexandria's downtown (Wust El-Balad) retains one of the largest concentrations of Belle Époque and Mediterranean colonial-era architecture in North Africa, a legacy of the city's cosmopolitan history under Ottoman and Khedival rule.