If you're gazing at the beautifully reconstructed colonial relics and mosques of central Beirut's Downtown, the city is a triumph of rejuvenation over disaster.

Archeologists digging beneath the war rubble of central Beirut have found the remains of nearly 5,000 years of successive civilizations.

Much of the area is soon to be transformed into a futuristic complex by Solidere, the company that is rebuilding central Beirut.

It quickly spread to other areas of central Beirut.

For the whole of central Beirut was being gradually reclaimed by nature, as overgrown as the political system which had so regularly betrayed Lebanon.

In central Beirut, dozens of families settled in the Sanayeh park, a small fenced expanse of green in the dusty city.

Mr. Hariri was killed on Feb. 14 when his motorcade was bombed in central Beirut in a blast that killed 19 other people.

Meanwhile, in central Beirut, a car bomb exploded in a parking area late Monday night, the second such attack in two days, increasing anxiety across an already tense city.

Keifoun is around 700m above sea level and 26 km from central Beirut.

Its buses number seven and ten also stop at the airport roundabout en route to central Beirut.