A Culture Trip of IWC of Zamalek to the Historic City Port Said

“Port Said with a new vision” that is the right title for the trip that the Inner wheel Club of Zamalek members presided by Hoda Malash undertook to the heriotic city as part

of our program Know your country. We started our tour with a visit to the famous navigating library that is based on the waters of the Suez Canal for a few weeks and went through the books available. We then went to the St Eugenie church which was the first wooden church built in Port Said in 1867 on ground donated by the Suez Canal company. Then in 1890 it was rebuilt with the European style beautifully decorated with beautiful paintings that were donated by the Vatican.

At the end of the first day, we enjoyed the Semsemeya folkloric music of Port Said.

The next day was also extremely pleasant we started by enjoying Ferial Garden located downtown Port Said that was recently renovated. It was inaugurated in the year 1869 with the opening of the Suez Canal and was visited by all the kings and Princes that came for the historical event as well as emperors Eugenie who was hosted by Khedive Ismail.

We had an extremely interesting tour around the city enjoying the very old buildings that almost each one had a different story. The city was inhabited by multinationals Italians, French, British, Armenians and many more besides the natives that what made it very particular.

An amazing part was the visit of Port Fouad the other side of the canal the Asian part with the small croisière. There we saw beautiful old wooden buildings from the 1800 s .and the salt heights as they call it. A most beautiful end of trip part.

It was really a very interesting cultural and fun trip as most of us never knew about all the historical places in this city. This is why we called it Port Said with a new vision.