Beautiful Baghdad

This time I wanted to uncover a beautiful place in the country of Iraq. My choice this time fell in the province of Baghdad.

Baghdad (بغداد) is the capital of Iraq and Baghdad provinces. Baghdad is the second largest city in Southwest Asia after Tehran, with population in 2003 is estimated at 5.772 million. Located on the Tigris River at 33 ° 20 north and 44 ° 26 east, this city once had been a center of Islamic civilization.

Baghdad has long played an important role in Arab cultural life and had always been a hometown writers, musicians and visual artists famous.

Places of interest include the National Museum of Iraq, where a collection of artifacts-artidak invaluable looted during the invasion in 2003, Hands Victory gate, and the Baghdad zoo. Thousands of ancient manuscripts at the Library of countries damaged when the building was burned during the second Persian Gulf War. Al Khadimiya Mosque in northwest Baghdad is one of the most important Shi'ite religious buildings in Iraq. He completed in 1515 and Priest the 7th (Musa ibn Jafar al-Kazim) and 9th (Mohammad al-Taqi) is buried here.

One of the oldest buildings are the Abbasid Palace which was built in the 12th century or the 13th century.

Points of interest from Baghdad was the Iraqi National Museum collection of priceless artifacts but looted during the invasion of 2003, and Hands Victory arch icon. Thousands of ancient manuscripts found in the National Library before the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Baghdad's historic downtown area is the Saray Building and Al-Mustansiriyah School (From the Abbasid Period). Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) is Iraq's largest airport is located 16 km from the central business district of Baghdad. This is the home of Iraq's national airline, Iraqi Airways.

The al-Shaheed Monument (Arabic: نُصب الشهيد‎), also known as the Martyr's Memorial, is a monument in the Iraqi capital Baghdad dedicated to the Iraqi soldiers who died in the Iran-Iraq war. The Monument was opened in 1983, and was designed by Ismail Fattah al-Turki. During the 1970s and 1980s, Saddam Hussein's government spent a lot of money on new monuments, which included the al-Shaheed Monument 

The Baghdad Zoo is a 200-acre (81 ha) zoo originally opened in 1971 and located in Baghdad, Iraq, in the al-Zawraa' Gardens area along with the Zawraa Amusement Park and Zawraa' Tower. Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the zoo housed 650 animals. After being decimated during the 2003 Iraqi war, when only about 35 animals survived, the zoo was reopened in 2003 and now houses about 1070 animals.

In 2008 the zoo had grown to about 800 animals, though most of these were birds. The only large animals at the zoo were two female lions left from the 22 original lions before the invasion. On 4 August 2008, the zoo received two tiger cubs (Hope and Riley) from the Mebane, North Carolina-based Conservators' Center, an exotic-wildlife sanctuary.

By 2009, the zoo reported that they had about 1070 animals. To keep visitors safe, Zawraa Park, in which the zoo is located, is guarded by the special police units that guard other government facilities. Visitors are frisked and bags and baskets are checked for explosives. Although numbers cannot be verified, the director general of parks and gardens, Salah Abu al-Lail, expected close to 8 million visitors to the park in 2009