Moussa Castle - Lebanon

Moussa Castle - Lebanon
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Moussa Castle was built single-handedly by Moussa Abdel Karim Al-Maamari (born in July 27, 1931), a Lebanese visionary.
It is the work of his life. He needed 60 years (21900 days and 394200 hours) of work.
According to his biography, as a student, Moussa has always dreamed of building such a castle,
and used to doodle his dream on pieces of paper in class.
Moussa was not a very sharp student and his teacher Anwar used to make fun of him and
tell him: "You'll never accomplish anything." Moussa's crush, a Lebanese girl,
used to say that she wants to marry a guy who owns a palace. Between 1951 and 1962,
he prepared everything to fulfill his plan, including buying the land and paperwork.
In 1962, his work of life started: He built the castle and handcrafted each of its stones
and clay animated figures representing different scenes of the old Lebanese village life of
the 19th century, making it a true work of a visionary and a masterpiece by all means.