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A coastal panorama over Lusail Marina and the Katara Towers, twin skyscrapers shaped like crossed scimitars. Live 24/7.
A view of Lusail's landmark twin towers
WorldCam broadcasts a coastal panorama over Lusail Marina, with the Katara Towers as its centrepiece — Qatar's planned city rising along the Gulf coast just north of the capital.
Lusail — a city built from scratch to host one World Cup final
Construction on Lusail began in 2006, long before Qatar was even awarded the 2022 FIFA World Cup, as part of the country's National Vision 2030 to build a self-sufficient satellite city on reclaimed land along the Persian Gulf, roughly 15 kilometres north of Doha. By the time the tournament arrived, Lusail Stadium had become its centrepiece venue, hosting the final between France and Argentina — but the city's most photographed landmark sits not in the stadium district but on the waterfront: the Katara Towers.
Completed in 2022 and designed by Kling Consult, the twin 211-metre towers curve into the unmistakable shape of two crossed scimitars, the traditional Arab swords that appear on Qatar's national emblem. One tower houses the all-suite Raffles Doha, Qatar's first six-star hotel; the other, the 362-room Fairmont Doha, whose lobby holds a chandelier standing 56 metres tall, among the largest in the world. Together they cover roughly 300,000 square metres, making Lusail's skyline as deliberately symbolic as it is spectacular.
What the camera shows
Katara Towers, Lusail
WorldCam · Lusail MarinaCoastal panorama over Lusail Marina, with the Katara Towers' crossed-scimitar silhouette as its landmark centrepiece.
Watch live →Qatar's coat of arms features two crossed scimitars beneath a traditional dhow, and the Katara Towers translate that heraldry directly into architecture — the curve of each tower doubling as both a sword blade and, from certain angles, a crescent moon. Few skylines anywhere are built quite so literally around a country's own symbol.
Doha and Lusail beyond the webcam
Lusail Stadium: the 88,000-capacity venue that hosted the 2022 World Cup final, part of the same purpose-built city as Katara Towers.
Museum of Islamic Art: I.M. Pei's landmark museum on Doha's Corniche, opened in 2008.
Souq Waqif: Doha's restored traditional market, a centre of the city's pearl-diving and trading history.
A country began building an entire city on reclaimed Gulf coastline years before it even knew it would host a World Cup — and ended up with a skyline whose most famous building is shaped, quite deliberately, like the swords on its own flag. Lusail's landmark towers were never meant to be subtle.
When to watch
Evening: for the Katara Towers illuminated against the Gulf skyline as Lusail Marina lights up after dark.
Getting there: Lusail sits roughly 15km north of central Doha, connected by tram and highway, Qatar.
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