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5 января 2017 года

A Roman amphitheatre to enhance culture in Iraqi Kurdistan

 
Sulaimania’s newest park, the huge Hawary Shar, will soon see the opening of a 5,000-seat open air auditorium built in the style of Rome’s Colosseum. Eventually a zoo, golf course, hotel and mall will be added.

In an estimated three months’ time the Iraqi Kurdistan city of Sulaimani will have its own version of Rome’s Colosseum. An arena for theatre and other kinds of entertainment that is being built in the same style as the famous Italian amphitheatre, is intended to be the crowning glory of the province’s Hawary Shar Park.

“Sulaimani is considered the cultural capital of the Iraqi Kurdish region so it should have a strong infrastructure to support that,” Barham Salih, the senior Iraqi Kurdish politician who heads the park project, told Niqash. “This [amphitheatre] is only going to strengthen that. It will become a landmark in the park, in Sulaimani and in the whole Kurdish region.”

Source: ekurd.net