🇱🇧 Heneine Palace is one of the most remarkable buildings in Zokak el-Bla (Beirut, Lebanon)
July 04, 2019 by ugly.beirut
🇱🇧 Heneine Palace is one of the most remarkable buildings in Zokak el-Blat, once a bourgeois garden district outside the old city walls of Beirut. The house was built in the late nineteenth century, during the final years of Ottoman rule, when Zokak el-Blat was an area of elite homes surrounded by orchards and gardens that was rapidly urbanizing. The plain exterior of the building concealed an unusual Moorish-inspired interior, with fountains, plaster decoration in geometric motifs, and arcades of crenellated arches separating the different spaces
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Thank you @beirutheritage For organizing a private tour
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