Ismaïlia

Ismaïlia (in Arab: الإسماعيلية) is the capital of the governorship of Al Isma' iliyah, and one of the most recent cities of Egypt. The city and its suburbs have a population of: 750000 people. It is located on Western bank of the Suez Canal, halfway between Port-Saïd with North and Suez in the South. The channel is extended to Ismaïlia to include the Lac Timsah, one of the bitter Lacs connected to the channel.

Located at 90 minutes of car of the Cairo and at four hours of Charm el-Cheikh in the South of the the Sinai, Ismaïlia is a tourist city for the Egyptians but she is visited rather little by the foreign tourists. Approximately four hours of road are necessary to go to the border Israel ienne to Taba and the Palestinian border of the Gaza Strip to Rafah.

Before the boring of the channel, Ismaïlia - from which the name comes from Ismaïl, last khedive d' Égypte-, was only one simple village of fishermen at the edge of the lake Timsah.

Ismaïlia is an administrative center of Suez Canal and one still sees there a great number of colonial constructions dating from the time or English and French managed the channel. The majority of these constructions are inhabited today by the Egyptian employees working for the channel.

Ismaïlia has a museum which shelters a collection of objects put at the day during the boring of Suez Canal. These archaeological testimonys date from the times Pharaonic, Roman and Islamic. In the garden of the steles , there are sphinges carved at the time of Ramsès {{II}}.

This city is in particular known to have seen being born the singer Claude François.

External links

Turn Egypt information one Ismaïlia
Tom Friedman, NewYork Times one recent democracy demonstrations in Ismailia, March 13,2005
Information butt the city' S popular soccer club

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See too

the team of Football of Ismaïlia.

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