Mansheya Park
Mansheya began as the garden adjoining Caesar Nawfal’s palace, west of Tall Square. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the palace’s heirs gave the garden to the municipality, allowing it to become a public park. During the French Mandate, the municipality maintained the grounds and enclosed them with a fence.
The park became a familiar meeting and waiting place for Tripolitans and visitors from nearby towns. Its marble fountain and mature trees provided places to pause within the busy city center.
The plan is an unusual pentagon, with an entrance at each corner connecting the garden to surrounding streets. The clock tower and the former site of the Ottoman Serail lie on its southern side, the municipal building to the north and Nawfal Palace—later the Rashid Karami Cultural Center—to the west.
