The research department in charge of this work shall establish guidelines aiming to integrate the historical sites and monuments in the context of contemporary development.
The department must among others define a rehabilitation plan that does not fossilize the city but allows for it a development that is integrated to its cultural characteristics, while taking into consideration the safeguard of the heritage in the daily action of the users and management services of the city.
In the initial period, the plan will have to meet the most urgent needs of the city and its region via infrastructure works, which should primarily apply to the different cleaning up networks, the traffic roads, the water and electricity conveyance, the lighting as well as the development of the districts.
Secondly, the plan should erase the effects of the war, and finally reorganize social and economic activity.
A special attention must be paid to the facility and settlement programs that play an important role in the entire safeguard program, and which are mainly dependent on the socio-economic situation of the population.
As far as the restoration and rehabilitation of the historical houses of the old city are concerned, a strategy for the preservation of Tyre will have to be defined and set up with regard to the technical, juridical and financial aspects (ICOMOS-Bikai/Cauchon Report).
The implementation of a global plan for the development of ancient Tyre as an archeological, tourist and crafts center is our objective.
The sites and monuments that must be protected and must be the subject of restoration and rehabilitation works are:
BASS (the roman road, the Byzantine roadway, the Necropolis, the monumental arch, the sepulchral fountain, the aqueduct, the hippodrome)
THE ANTIQUE CITY (the main road, the arena, the tanks, the pilaster, the great Phoenician wall, the thermal baths, the squared streets, the Crusader Cathedral)
THE EARLY CHRISTIAN BASILICA which was discovered in 1995.
THE SOUK REGION (the traditional Lebanese 19th century houses, the old hamams with their ancient vaults, the artisans district, the souk-life, the two khans).
THE RELIGIOUS MONUMENTS (the old Sunni Mosque, the Shiite Mosque, the Maronite Cathedral, the Greek Catholic church).
THE NORTH PORT OR SIDONIAN PORT AND SOUTH PORT OR EGYPTIAN PORT
THE SURROUNDINGS OF TYRE Jaal el Bahr, Ramali, Derdghaya, Nabaa or gushing out source, Kharayeb, Qabr Hiram, Qana, Hanaouay, Hounin, Tibnin, Um el Amad, En Naquora, Hamoul, Chamaa, Sarafand -sarepta-, Aadloun, Akshaf, Iskanderouna, Khirbet, Slim, Siddiqine, Burj al Mamura, Aalma Ech Chaab, El Jebbain, El Qlaille, El Henniye, Zebqine, Jbal el Botom)
Through our efforts, the CDR has already done studies for the first five sites, with financing from the World Bank. The World Bank and the World Heritage Committee have committed to the realization of the missing two studies.
It's not an ordinary city, but one of the oldest and most famous maritime trading posts of the world, and a city who has been the metropolis of Carthage, and whose ships traveled all over the seas. The seaports of such a city must have been proportional to its huge commerce…
Only a seriously conducted and strictly controlled underwater exploration could lead to the draw up of an exact plan of the seaports and harbors that used to protect them and help verify the witnesses of those who had anticipated enormous submerged breakwaters in the past century.
The principle of this plan consists in making out of this World Heritage a center of cultural influence, and to revive hopes and motivations by reorganizing human activity on the individual, familial, professional and social level. Its establishment requires multidisciplinary skills (town and country planning, cityplanning, architecture, archaeology, etc).
