Ismailia, Egypt

Ismailia is called the capital of the Suez Canal, because the city arose during the construction of the canal and during the reign of Ismail Pasha, after whom Ismailia was named. Here and to this day is located the administration for the management of the Suez Canal.
The city is extremely landscaped, very beautiful with many other European-style houses in which European builders lived on the Suez Canal. Ismailia is a huge garden with trees, parks, large squares, wide streets with sidewalks, which are carefully maintained in good condition. Currently, the city is a resort for recreation of the middle and upper elite of Egypt, which attracts with beautiful villas along the Great Bitter Lake, which is part of the Suez Canal.
The older part of the city is more attractive and the better option for recreation and walking. The atmosphere of the colonial style is perfectly felt in it among low buildings and greenery. The French consul Ferdinand de Lesseps had a house in Ismailia, located on Rue Mehmed Ali, north of which is Rue Sultan Hussein, considered the main street of the city.
The city has its own museum - the Ismailia Museum, designed entirely in the Pharaonic style. Artifacts from antiquity and the Greco-Roman period are exhibited here. For a museum dedicated to the Suez Canal, the first sod was dug in 2000.