PLACE RIAD EL-SOLH

Going up Parliament Street, one reaches Riad el-Solh Square, which before the civil war was a bit like Lebanese Wall Street. Although the Lebanese banking sector, still flourishing, has gradually relocated (and dematerialized), some banks have reinvested in the area around the square. At the level of the square, the statue of Riad el-Solh: on its right, the imposing Capitol building dating from the early 1950s; on its left, the building of the ESCWA, a United Nations organization, an imposing glass cube inaugurated in 1997.