The historic city of the sun in Lebanon

The historic city of the sun in Lebanon

The historic city of the sun .. Baalbek

Baalbek effects:

Lebanon's Baalbek city located in the heart of the Bekaa Valley, known riches and abundance of agricultural crops to the extension of its territory and abundant waters of the Litani River, which tells its territory. They spend the Bekaa Center. Known through the ages for its land line. Romans built huge temples. And its attraction for tourists attest to the treasures

Naming the city came from the installation of the words "Baal" means "Lord" and "your" and symbolizes the corners. As they were called "Hilleopols" (City of the Sun) when the Romans. Simit castle days Umayyad Arabs

Baalbek is located on the crossroads of a number of ancient caravan routes that reach the Mediterranean coast Shami mainland and northern Syria, Palestine. Has benefited throughout its long history of this unique location to become an important commercial station and a prominent religious pilgrimage. Due to its strategic geographical location and agricultural importance, became in 47 BC.. Roman colony by order Menyulius Caesar and the selected site for the construction of the largest structures of the Roman temple of Bacchus reflected the wealth and power of the Roman Empire. The construction lasted more than two hundred years and supervised by the Romanian tycoon different. In order to reach these structures, the visitor must first pass huge Roman porticoes and Bassahtin surrounded by majestic columns

The city of Baalbek of the most important tourist cities in the Middle East because of its rich tourist from Castle Baalbek with construction Roman towering height to stone funiculus, which represents the largest stone carved in the world, which is located on the side of the entrance to the city of Baalbek in the east, where the Romans were uprooted stones and Anhtoha and Asoukoha to the 

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