PROTECT THE PHOENICIAN PORT on BEIRUT PLOT 1398!!

c'est si revolant de voir que dans notre cher Liban la culture du respect de l'heritage historique est tout simplement devenu un essui-pied mis au service d'investiteurs (souvent etrangers) affames de fortunes . j'accuse les gouvernements qui se sont suivis ces dernieres 2 decenies d'avoir encourager participer et faciliter vivement ce genre de carnage envers notre heritage culturel . il est grand temps de mettre fin a cette debauche .

Very good

I can't believe lebanon still did not realise the importance of its cultural heritage. This petition is the proof for me that people out there still believe a change is possible. Thanks a lot whoever is at the root of it.

Thanks to Regina for passing this on to me.
R

l 7adara bé balad hiyé l7ifaz 3al7adara mch ma7o ma3alem l7adara kérmél binéyét b 500 malyoun $ !!!!

share this petition to save the port

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The Lebanese government has respect for nothing and noone !

it is mandatory to join rffort facing the growing greedy pigs in the country

If there is no PAST, there is no FUTURE. DONT break down this wall!

Il serait vraiment honteux et dommage de perdre ce port qui fait partie de notre patrimoine... l'argent va et vient, le Patrimoine non .

L'argent va et vient , le Patrimoine, non!
Il serait dommage et honteux de perdre ce port qui fait partie de notre patrimoine.

The Phoenician harbour is a hugely important archaeological find, and vital to Lebanon's cultural history and modern political identity. it should be protected and investigated as a precious archaeological resource.

It would be irresponsible on all parties involved if the port is not maintained and declared as a UNESCO site. Cities need life and soul, they need stories, and Beirut is the most amazing storied city in teh world.

We risk becoming a one big shopping like Dubai!

Rony Zibara

protect lebanon...

Altrevie, cultural association based in Rome, support the action of Save Heritage Lebanon to protect the phoenician port on Beirut on Plot 1398. Claudio Bocci President

The fusion of old and new is important for the sake of the future generations

hayda shi mish ma2boul w betloub men el kel yeb3ato la yemdo ref2aton

This is part of Humankind's heritage, & I do not think it fair, or right, that a nameless, impersonal company should decide to do away with something that, as part of the History of Antiquity, belongs a little to all of us...Thank You!!!

besides preserving history, want to make money out of towers? try investing in these monuments...

Why am not surprised with this!?
Our public officials have never shown any concern for our natural or archeological heritage.
Shame on them and on us for letting them get away with it.
Hope this helps
Naila Kaidbey

It's a Heritocide :/ (Heritage genocide)...

How often are we going to unearth ancient Phoenician ports? We need to preserve this.

Dear Friends and citizens, The Ministry of Culture, The Lebanese Gvt, Lebanese everywhere,

a Phoenician port has just been discovered in the Minat al Hosn city center area, on plot 1398, behind the Monroe
Hotel.
A Development firm known as Venus Real Estate Development Co [VRED] plans to build 3 mega towers on plot 1398, a 7510 squ meter project worth 500 million $.

For 5 months, the DGA has unearthed considerable archeological finds including 2 parallel canals constituting
the port structure.

the port itself ha been dated from 500 BC

such a discovery underlines the paramount importance
of ancient beirut, as a portal-city of the antiquity and most particularly, of the Roman Era.

Such discovery is about to be reburied in concrete.

We request your signatures upon this petition in a bid to
voice our refusal to such mistreatment of our heritage.
This is not just tourism, this is history and cultural identity.
this is what our ancestors used to be and we wont have it
bulldozed and replaced by towers no Lebanese can afford.

Sign up, and pass it on, for the safeguarding of our endangered memory and culture.