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After years of delays, Cairo is finally set to open the Grand Egyptian Museum on Saturday -- a long-awaited, billion-dollar showcase of pharaonic grandeur that Egypt hopes will help revive tourism and boost its troubled economy.

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Blending the grandeur of classic Hollywood with the innovation of contemporary fashion, the event transformed the city into a living film set, with designers, actors and artists sharing the spotlight.

The most popular colonial site is the Raffles Hotel, which was founded in 1887 and soon expanded to its current neo-Renaissance grandeur.

Vast palaces loom over landscapes in Riyadh, Oman and Malaysia, but the scale and grandeur of the buildings doesn’t confer on those nations any gravitas or greatness.