Badaro

Opposite the museum, the tomb of the unknown soldier, as well as a Roman era colonnade, are part of a small garden with a Byzantine floor mosaic.

[5]According to a widespread version, in the 17th century, the ruler of the Principality of Lebanon, Emir Fakhreddin, planted pine trees to stop the advance of sand south of the city of Beirut in an area inhabited by Christians and Druze.

In fact, much earlier chroniclers report a forest of pine trees stretching from the sea to the northern border of Badaro.

[10] During the Lebanese civil war of 1975–1990, Badaro was a frontline Christian neighborhood, therefore, resulting in the exodus of most of its inhabitants to Europe or safer parts of the country.

On Damascus street, facing the Smallville hotel lies the Syriac Catholic patriarchate, a palace surrounded by a garden.

Across Sami el Solh, the semi tubular Notre Dame church of "College des Frères de la Salle" dominates the Avenue.