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A plan to make Baghdad the most beautiful among the Arab capitals ...

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June 6, 2010

A plan to make Baghdad the most beautiful among the Arab capitals

بغداد – الصباح BAGHDAD - morning

Baghdad secretariat has prepared a plan that will last for two years which seeks to make the most beautiful Baghdad, the capital of Arab capitals, said a spokesman for the Secretariat Hakeem Abdul-Zahra.

And transfer site «Alsumaria News» About Abdul-Zahra said: that «the government formed a committee to rehabilitate and develop many tourist facilities and religious city of Baghdad, to make it the most beautiful city among the other cities in 2013», indicating that «the Commission headed by Culture Minister Maher Sabri, and membership of the municipality of Baghdad and the Baghdad governor and representatives of the Shiite and Sunni Aloagafin and a number of relevant ministries.

He added that «the Higher Committee held several meetings regarding the necessary arrangements for the rehabilitation of a lot of tourist facilities and religious in the city of Baghdad, buildings, monuments and facades of buildings, gardens and parks, as well as the establishment of restaurants and hotels in the form which gives the city a lot of features beautiful».

The Abdul-Zahra that «the Baghdad Municipality has allocated two billion dinars for developing the urban landscape of the areas heritage in the city of Baghdad», pointing out that «the Secretariat has developed a plan to prepare urban studies and planning for the rehabilitation and development of the central parts of the capital, including the areas heritage including the development of Al-Rashid Street Market and beeps museums and important markets in Baghdad, in addition to the caliphs Street Development Project and the development project area Khader Elias ».

The source said the media: that «the Municipality of Baghdad completed its project to develop Abu Nawas street and park development project Corniche Adhamiya, in addition to rehabilitation and development of al-Baghdadi Museum.

The company Mercer Advisory, based in New York City had conducted a poll of 221 cities around the world, shows that the city of Vienna has maintained its position as the city the first in the world in terms of living, followed by Zurich, German, and replaced the city of Dubai is ranked 75 globally to the city to be the best in the Middle East, followed by Tunis in place 94, resolved in Baghdad, which ranked last in spite of progress index slightly (from 14.4 to 14.7).

The city of Baghdad, suffer from largely neglected due to suspension of more services, particularly infrastructure since 1980 due to wars fought by Iraq with its neighbors, in addition to the economic blockade and the subsequent looting after 2003, as well as the security situation that led to the closure of Most of the streets Balaward concrete, which has distorted the city.


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and a virtual tour ~ The Virtual Museum of Iraq ~ very cool ...
http://www.virtualmuseumiraq.cnr.it/homeENG.htm