Horsh Beirut

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Horsh Beirut ( Arabic حرش بيروت, DMG Ḥurš Bairūt ; literally translated as “small primeval pine forest”), also known by its French name Bois de Pins , is a public park in the Mazraa district of Beirut . With a size of 300,000 m², it is the largest public green space in the city.

history

The park was built on the area of ​​a former pine forest , which originally (1696) covered 1,250,000 m². In 1967, 800,000 m² of the forest was still preserved. During the 1982 Lebanon War, Israel bombed the area, which was temporarily used as a refugee camp for Palestinians. From 1990, after the end of the Lebanese civil war , the park was restored, but remained closed to the public. It has only been accessible again since 2015. The first year only on Saturdays with approval, now all the time and open to everyone.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ No bed of roses: Public spaces in the Middle East , The Economist , June 9, 2016.

Coordinates: 33 ° 52 ′ 18 ″  N , 35 ° 30 ′ 34 ″  E