As part of this global partnership, the staff of Intercontinental Phoenicia Beirut volunteered to help clean and beautify the old city of Tyre.

UNESCO: Voluntary day to clean old city in Tyre

From Phoenicia to Carthage, the republics of Venice and Genoa, to the Swiss Federation and Dutch Republic, riches have frequently arisen under decentralized republican government.

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The Bible contains scores of references to Lebanon (or Phoenicia, as it is often called) and its complicated, love-hate relationship with the rulers of Israel to its south.

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On the 20th of September, about 40 InterContinental Phoenicia employees and 26 Tyre residents and artists collaborated with the Municipality of Tyre and the Directorate General of Antiquities to bring their contribution to the project.

UNESCO: Voluntary day to clean old city in Tyre