5395 x 4037 px | 45,7 x 34,2 cm | 18 x 13,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
17 novembre 1869
Lieu:
Port Said, Suez Canal inauguration ceremonies 17 November 1869
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Port Said, Egypt — 1869 — Taking 10 years to build, the Suez Canal was the brainchild of Frenchman Ferdinand De Lesseps, who became the president of the Canal Maritime de Suez (Suez Canal Company). The official party lasted for 10 days. An account by Thos. H. Reid in 1909: “The opening ceremony was made a magnificent international function. An opera house was built in Cairo at a cost of 60, 000 sterling. Verdi, the composer, wrote the Egyptian opera “Aida” for the occasion, and no composition is more popular during the Cairo season today when it is produced with all the splendour that marked its first performance. For the Empress Eugenie’s convenience, a palace was built at Ismailia at a cost of 40, 000 sterling. To enable her to visit the Pyramids and Sphinx, a new road was constructed in a few days. Preparations were made on a regal scale for banquets and other festivities. The Viceroy brought five hundred cooks and a thousand servants from Trieste, Genoa, Leghorn, and Marseilles. Nothing that money could buy or fancy suggest was omitted to mark a great historic event…on November 16, there were 160 vessels of various nationalities in the harbour. French, British, Austrian, Russian, Italian, Prussian, Turkish, Egyptian warships thundered a welcome, and royalties put off in state barges to pay personal homage to the principal figure in the approaching ceremonials….That night Port Said was illuminated and the day closed on a brilliant display of fireworks. Thus was inaugurated one of the most remarkable engineering works of modern times - a work which has nothing in common with canals as understood in engineering text books.”
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