The Holiday Inn was a landmark that towered over glittering Beirut in the 1970s. The Lebanese civil war ravaged the city and the hotel. The debate over the hotel's carcass carries on to this day.

The scars of war on Lebanon’s Holiday Inn. Graffiti artist has drawn attention to the skeletal remains of the hotel, an ‘accidental monument’ in central Beirut.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A symbol of Lebanon’s golden age, but also its brutal civil war, the empty shell of the Holiday Inn hotel in Beirut could now take on a new life.

A symbol of Lebanon's golden age but also its brutal civil war, the empty shell of the Holiday Inn hotel in Beirut could now take on a new life. No one yet knows what it will become, but after ...

A symbol of Lebanon's golden age, but also its brutal civil war, the empty shell of the Holiday Inn hotel in Beirut could now take on a new life. No one yet knows what it will become, but after ...

At the start of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, Beirut’s luxury hotel district was turned into a battlefield, with rival groups of gunmen holed up in some of the most expensive accommodation in ...

It sits near several luxury hotels in the heart of Beirut, but also in the ominous shadow of the hulk of the 26-storey Holiday Inn, which was wrecked in 1976 during the Lebanese civil war and ...

The Holiday Inn was a landmark that towered over glittering Beirut in the 1970s. The Lebanese civil war ravaged the city and the hotel. The debate over the hotel's carcass carries on to this day.

To check into Beirut's Holiday Inn these days, you need a permit from the army and the stamina to climb 26 flights of decaying stairs to the concrete ...