LEBANON FLAGS UP YET ANOTHER WORLD RECORD
Fiesta Group set a Guinness World Record for the largest flag in the world at the Military Barracks in Riyaq in honor of the Lebanese Army’s 65th anniversary. The project headed by the CEO of Fiesta Kuwait Mr. Ashraf Makarem, funded by Mr. Wadih Al Absi, took five months of preparation. A special MEA carrier was dedicated to transport the flag to Lebanon, where 500 soldiers from the army added their touches before the official ceremony. The event was sponsored by the Minister of Defense, in the presence of a Guinness World Record Representative.
Organized by Fiesta – Mr. Ashraf Makarem
Record Holder : Lebanese Army and Fiesta
Record ID NO.: 307119
Location: Rayak Airport – Lebanon
Date: 10/10/2010
Occasion: 65th Anniversary of the Lebanese Army
Record Name: Largest Flag in the World
Flag Size: 65975 m2
Cedar Size: 10452m2 (It took 1000kg of paint to color it, the size matched Lebanon’s proximity by meters)
Flag Weight: 6000kg
6 weeks, 70 tons of steel, 130 people involved, 23.5 meters high, can be compared to an 8 floor building, 50m diameter, the shape of an arena, a capacity of 2000 attendees, a 400 sqm stage, giant mechanical backdrop, and a 2440 sqm 3D projection screen…
Atrium Architecture by FIESTA holding broke the Chinese Guinness World Record at the Beirut Cultural Festivals.
Having breezed through several world records in the culinary field Lebanon has now gone for the big one – the world’s largest national flag, and so huge it needed an airfield.
The Lebanese military on Sunday released a picture taken from the air of the massive flag, stitched in Kuwait, assembled in Lebanon and covering 65,000 square meters “unfurled.”
Now Lebanon’s bid for the title has been displayed at Riyak air base in the east of the country, in the presence of a representative of the “Guinness World Records” book.