Port-Saïd : Architectures XIXe-XXe siècles. Essais For almost our entire history

For almost our entire history on Earth

born during the High Middle Ages but whose popularity reached its peak in the 12th and 13th centuries

is presented for the first time

photograms and press clippings allow us to follow the creative work as well as the man's private life

Port-Saïd : Architectures XIXe-XXe siècles. Essais For almost our entire historyDesigned primarily as a guide, this book offers, through a series of illustrated itineraries, a discovery of the different periods of architecture in Port Said, a city founded in 1859 by the "Universal Company of the Suez Maritime Canal", on the occasion of the digging of the famous canal. The book also brings together three stories by French and Egyptian authors that help to understand what this city was like in the past and what it could become