Artillery Heights

Artillery Heights (Arabic: مرتفعات المدفعية murtafi‘āt al-madfa‘iyah) is a mount in the Arab Union capital of Nasser City, which is the highest point in the city at 334 metres above the surface of the Sea of Galilee. The grounds of the mount including much of its base are divided between a municipal park with manicured gardens including an oasis, an adjacent memorial to the Arab Revolutionary War, and most notably the Garden Estate compound (the official presidential palace) At 3.38 km2, Artillery Heights is bounded on the south and west by Artillery Heights Avenue, on the northwest by Jordan Avenue, and on the northeast and east by Galilee Road; the public plaza in front of the presidential compound's southeast (main) entrance at the base of the mount is surrounded by a large roundabout which is the terminus of Lebanon Avenue, and which features a large fountain in its centre. The Garden Estate and the rest of the Artillery Heights grounds are patrolled by the Republican Guard, an elite division of the Arab Army dedicated to the protection of the President of the Arab Union.