Port Said, Egypt

Port Said is an Egyptian city located in the northeastern part of the country, named after Said Pasha, who initiated the Suez Canal project. 
Founded in 1859 and chosen for the lavish opening ceremony of the Canal in 1869, Port Said is a port between the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal. Before hosting the "celebration of the century", Port Said was considered "the most disgusting place in the East" because of its brothels and cynical postcards. But the winning formula - a sobering revolution, devastating wars with Israel and low-cost air travel - are helping to change the situation completely.
The story of the development of the city is written on the shores of Lake Manzala, on the soil excavated for the Suez Canal. Port Said was originally the equivalent of a quay for passing merchant vessels. 
After 150 years of development, everything has been erased and an empty plinth has been placed, on which the statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the canal's architect, has long stood. There was an idea of ​​the French sculptor Bartholdi to place a large-scale monument near it, representing a statue with a torch in his hand. Port Said turned out to be unworthy and the statue found a new home and received its new name - "Statue of Liberty".
The National and Military Museums can be visited in Port Said. The latter traces modern history through relics from the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the wars with Israel of 1967 and 1973. 
In addition to land, the walk around Port Said is suitable for ferries crossing the Canal and reaching the residential area of ​​Port Fowad. So the view of the House of the Suez Canal is much more exciting. This beautiful white building with a colonnade and three green domes in Byzantine style was built in 1869. as the head office of the company building the Canal.
The old shopping area of ​​Port Said was once teeming with a variety of Greek and Italian restaurants, French pastry shops, Jewish shops and Egyptian tailoring shops. Today, modernity leaves its mark, but still does not doom the cosmopolitan past, forgetting the same from the beautiful buildings with shiny balconies erected during that era. 
Today, Port Said, despite the sufficient number of attractions, is a little visited place, but also blessed with new popularity due to its status as a free economic zone.