Beirut blast destroyed landmark 19th-century palace after painstaking restoration #breakingnews #breaking #worldhealines

The 160-year-old palace withstood two world wars, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the French mandate and Lebanese independence. After the country’s 1975-1990 civil war, it took 20 years of careful restoration for the family to bring the palace back to its former glory.

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