Tripoli by Night
Posted on 28 Feb 2010 by Chris Overstreet
Categories and Tags: Architecture & Engineering, Chrome Postcards, Libya, Religion and Churches, Tourism , castle, Tripoli
Have fun storming the castle!
Omran sent me several nice cards from Tripoli last month; while I was able to blog about his postcard of a Libyan woman at Girls Go Postal!, I haven’t had a chance to post any of the others. But Evelyn’s A Festival of Postcards, 7th Edition provides a great opportunity to post two well-lit landmarks.
Pictured above is Saraya al-Hamra, the “Red Castle”, a fortress built into Tripoli’s ancient city wall and dates from at least the 16th Century. In 1988, it was renovated and reopened as the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Museum, a place where one can find Libyan cultural artifacts throughout history.
"The Islands"
This second postcard shows Myadan al-Jazair Mosque, also in Tripoli. “Al Jazair” is Arabic for “the islands” and is also the Arabic name for the city of Algiers.
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I would really like to visit Libya. I know it can be a hassle, but it would be amazing to see.