Aya's Beirut alternative tour
Sursock
At the top of St Nicolas stairs
Sursock museum's restuauration... (broken after Port explosion ?)
Lebanon was Ottoman for 400(0?) years till 1916
Martyr's square ...
Sculpture of 2 women : Les pleureuses - 1930
Laïla il allah
Joined hands with precussion, vailed and not...
The Otoman territory was shared between English ad French
Sursock is one of the oldest families, coming from Constantinople (Orthodoxe)
The old Beitut was surrouded by walls with five gates.
Sursocks were water traders...
Ashrafal > overlook
Palais of Lady Cochrane - 1860 with initails : M.S (or interleaved letters logo)
Escaliers en coeur
Marble (not a lot of metal at the time)
Chats dans le jardin...
Porte surplombée de portes en alcove
Continuant à droite :
Turkish Hammam is the actuall house of the family
The Palais is rented 300 dollars per day per person for marriages...
Port
There was a ship docking here,
coming from Georgia, going to Mozambique,
and detenting Amonium Nitrate...
kept here for one year (with crew members)
Thee plan was to remove away the Nitrate, said government.
They couldn't get the paper done, they said...
They sent a team to fix the firework without saying the danger...
12km damage...
1200(0?) people died...
1250(0?) KG ...
The investigation is led by government, which is accused of causing this...
The choc of the glass exploding : lots of glass...
The government didn't do anything to fix...
Fix the 1500 shops with the help of french institution.
The investigation is still ongoing...
Esclier descendant au travers de murs, vers d'autres jardins, d'autres allées