8390 x 5359 px | 71 x 45,4 cm | 28 x 17,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
18. September 1993
Ort:
Martyrs' Square, Beirut, Lebanon.
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The Martyrs' Monument was created by Italian sculptor Marino Mazzacurati and inaugurated in 1960. It was built to honour the memory of a cross-confessional group of Lebanese Patriots who were hanged on the 6th May 1916, because they had spoken out against Turkish rule. The two buildings directly beyond the monument were the only two on the square that were not demolished after the civil war. On the left is the "Cinema Opera", which became a Virgin Megastore in 2001. Next to it, on the right, is the yellow Ezzeddine building, formerly the Royal Hotel, which was restored in 2001. The big building at the bottom of the square with the neon advertising structure on top, is the Cinema Rivoli, opened in 1953. It was constructed on the site of the Petit-Serail, an Ottoman administration building from the 1880s. It was demolished in the 1990s and a car park constructed on the site. Martyrs' Square, historically known as "Al Burj" or "Place des Cannons", is the historical central public square of Beirut, Lebanon. Known originally as Place de l’Etoile, in 1931 it was renamed Martyrs’ Square after those executed there on 6th May 1916, in the last years of Ottoman rule. During the Civil War it formed the demarcation line that divided the city in half. The Lebanese Civil War was a multifaceted civil war in Lebanon, lasting from 1975 to 1990 and resulting in an estimated 120, 000 fatalities. There was also an exodus of almost one million people from Lebanon as a result of the war.
