Veckorevy 1955-11-29

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Date: 29.11.1955
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: "We fly to Baghdad". The SAS travel agency in Stockholm sells tickets to the Middle East. The premiere plane, a DC 6, leaves Bromma and lands in Baghdad. Street scenes with rich folk life, mosque, pontoon bridge over the Tigris and the Stesikon castle ruins with a 37 m high vault. Swedish tourists sleep in the open on hotel roofs. Lunch on the plane on the way to Damascus. Panning of the city. Modern and old quarter. Visit a mosque. Minarets. The plane on its way to the Arab part of Jerusalem. Tomb of Mary Magdalene. The Omar Mosque. The mountain of oil. Triumphal arch. The Wailing Wall. Gethsemane. Church of the Resurrection on Calvary. Barbed wire fence between Jewish and Arab neighborhoods.
Video Added: 18.05.2021