Qatar´s Capital Doha, Where the Past Meets the Future

 
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Recently we started service to this dyamic city – in the northeast Arabnian Peninsula astride a bay off the Persian Gulf and with a population of some 665,000 – where which will have you marveling at its modernity. Considered since 2014 one of the world´s top seven urban wonders, its core is dominated by glass skyscrapers, interspersed with green spaces and renovated historical buildings dating back to its founding in 1820.

Back then it was a humble town of fisherfolk and pearl merchants, and it pretty much remained that way until Qatar became an exporter of oil in 1949 and eventually upon independence from Britain Doha became the national capital in 1971. Petrodollars transformed the city skyline into what it is today, and here are several of the highlights very much worth a visit:

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