The Beautification of Fujairah

The suburb of ‘Old Fujairah’, divided by Al Salam Road, is getting a makeover.

Today in this historic street lined with quaint shops and the Islamic Guidance Center, a team from the Municipality was out in full force.

Like a dentist extracting teeth, the straggly trees were whipped out in minutes.

As on many other Fujairah streets, the old is being removed, the ground is rolled, the soil is laid, new grass is planted and palm trees will soon be placed at regular intervals.

If, as Fyodor Dostoevsky contended, ‘beauty shall save the world’, the local municipality is on the way to making this a reality in the emirate of Fujairah.

Further Beauty Treatment
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Geoff Pound

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Fujairah Going Green

The Fujairah Municipality has been making a concerted effort to remove paving stones in the middle of streets and replace them with grass.

This requires large quantities of water but planting significant areas of green grass is part of a plan to beautify the community.

One of the advantages of this move is seen in the way these grassy areas are increasingly being used by groups of people for sitting and relaxing in the cool of the evening.

Date palms and green lawn lined with flowers along Al Ittihad Road in Al Ittihad.

Grassy areas are easy on the eyes and soft on the feet down King Faisal Road, Faseel.

Newly planted grass on the roundabout that links Old Fujairah and Al Owaid.

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