Flag Plaza
National flags lining a waterfront walkway carved from hand-sculpted limestone benches.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Flag Plaza in Doha follows the walkway of hand-carved limestone benches beneath the Corniche's row of flags, and how they got there: designer Najla El Zein sent the stone to a workshop in Lebanon, where artisans spent months shaping it by hand before it crossed the sea to Qatar. She named each curve for a different way people meet — acquaintance, friendship, familiarity among them. Sit on a few different benches to feel how each one pulls you closer to your neighbor or eases you apart.
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