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Sinai Peace Junction, also Line of Peace or simply Blue mountains or Blue desert (engl. Blue Desert), is a landscape work of art by the Belgian artist Jean Vérame on the Hallawi Plateau in the south of the Sinai about 12 kilometers east-northeast of the Catherine's Monastery, the 1980–1981 after the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty originated.
getting there
The journey is only possible with an all-terrain vehicle from the east or west coast of the Sinai in the direction of St. Catherine's Monastery. At the meeting point of the streets of Dahab or via the Feran oasis, both are trunk roads 36, about eleven kilometers northeast of St. Catherine's Monastery one turns 1 28 ° 38 ′ 13 ″ N.33 ° 59 ′ 37 ″ E in a south-easterly direction into the desert and after about nine kilometers you reach the work of art.
Tourist Attractions
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The artwork 1 Sinai Peace Junction(28 ° 35 ′ 19 ″ N.34 ° 3 '46 "E) was created by Jean Vérame from 1980 to 1981. In several places on the Hallawi Plateau, which is about 7 kilometers long, over an area of about 15 square kilometers, rocks or rock parts were sprayed with strong colors in blue and, more rarely, in red. Unfortunately, the very praiseworthy intention is difficult to understand even on closer inspection, and that is why the work of art is also controversial.
Since the middle of the 20th century, Sinai has repeatedly been the scene of armed conflicts between Egypt and Israel, such as the Suez crisis 1956/1957, the Six day war 1967 and the Yom Kippur War from 1973. Only that Camp David Agreement from 1978 and the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty from 1979 put an end to these disputes.
In 1978 Vérame spent the first time on the Sinai. Inspired by the negotiations at Camp David and the 1977 song "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" by the American singer Crystal Gayle (* 1951) spent two years trying to convince the Egyptian authorities of his idea and his dream of a monumental landscape work of art. With the approval of the then president Anwar es-Sādāt (1918–1981) and the provision of 10 tons of paint by the United Nations, he began producing the work of art in the fall of 1980, which he completed the following year. For this purpose, several rocks on the Hallawi Plateau were partially or completely covered with mainly blue paint.
Over time, however, the work of art fades.
Jean Vérame was born in Belgium on November 30, 1939 Ghent born and later lived in France. Since 1965 he has been decorating landscapes all over the world. One of his works of art is the design of a river valley in the Cevennes on Corsica and that of rock and landscape formations in a canyon in Amarillo in Texas, in Tafraout in Morocco and in Tibesti-Massif in the north of the Chad.
kitchen
In the village of el-Milga near the Catherine's Monastery there are several restaurants and a bakery.
accommodation
In the vicinity of the Catherine's Monastery there are camps and hotels with different facilities.
trips
Visiting the work of art can be compared to that of the Catherine's Monastery, of Moses Bergs and des Katharinenbergs connect.
literature
- El-Hebeishy, Mohamed: Snap shots (Archived version of October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive archive.org), Report in the weekly newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly dated October 9, 2008.
- : Les Déserts de Jean Vérame. Milan: Editions Skira, 2000, ISBN 978-88-8118-825-3 .
