Tabia Orabi is one of the military castles that the French occupation established on the ruins of the city of Izbat al-Burj, north of Damietta, more than two hundred years ago after the French campaign destroyed the old fortress for the people of the resistance at the time to kill many soldiers of the Napoleonic campaign, but after he realized the importance of its site he built it again and fortified it for fear of possible attacks by the Ottomans or the British, and in the era of Muhammad Ali he cared for its renewal, as Khedive Abbas Pasha and Khedive Ismail attached great importance to its defensive importance on the northern coast of Egypt.

The architectural description of the castle consists of three main sections.

The first: It is the fences, which represent an integrated defensive line next to the trench separating them. In order for this line to achieve its mission efficiently, it was necessary to easily provide it with the supplies needed by the army of supplies, weapons and fortifications for protection by erecting the towers at close distances for easy communication between the soldiers and the two stationers and organizing the work where they were provided With trenches, corridors, mugs and towers.

The second: It includes buildings located on the western facade of the castle, which overlooks the Nile directly, in addition to some parts of the walls that are currently demolished.

As for the third section: it is located in the eastern side and also includes several buildings, one of which is likely to be the mosque that mediates the castle and the house of Al-Hikdar in addition to several stores of missions and separates the second and third sections by a modern paved road currently, and among the most important buildings of this section is a large red brick building consisting of a rectangular space divided by five huge rectangular supports, which holds four semi-circular contracts covered with a semi-circular vault and it is believed that this building was used as an altar or room to prepare food for soldiers, and four stables for horses, each covered with a semicircular vault, and adjacent to this building is a rectangular building that supported all of its rear and western facades The eastern region has three huge pillars of stone, the roof of which covers the shape of a Jamalouni and is believed to have been used as a gallows or a prison, as its layout included the construction of a large kashkala and several warehouses for gunpowder and tasks and a large tank that was supplying them with water at the time of the absence of the flood. Because of its great importance at the time.