Suez

The Egyptian port of Suez is located in the gulf of the same name, which forms one of the two branches of the Red Sea. It lies at the mouth of Suez Canal on the south side, as Port-Saïd to the north does for the Mediterranean. Although Suez has been a trading port since the Middle Ages, for spices and pilgrimages to Mecca, the building and commissioning of the canal in the 19th Century accelerated its development until it became the large modern city that it is today.