Paris Square (Haifa)

The Hamra Square was a public space created in Haifa during the Ottoman period.

[2] The buildings were designed in the International Style with Tubzeh (split face) and Musamsam (light chiseled) stone cladding.

The result: two spectacular three-story and five-story blocks on the corners that defiine Eliyahu Hanavi St., surrounded on both sides by a portico and comerece.

[3] In 1954, when the Israeli government commissioned the Carmelit funicular subway system from a French company, it decided to rename the area to Paris Square as a friendly gesture to the French.

[5] In 2011, the square was renovated,[5] and its reopening ceremony was attended by the mayor of Paris at the time, Bertrand Delanoë.