| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : St Anthony Qozhaya Monastery
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Arab style two-coloured stone entrance to the church.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : St Anthony Qozhaya Monastery
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Detail of the external decorations.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : St Anthony Qozhaya Monastery
|
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The triple bell tower of the church.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : St Anthony Qozhaya Monastery
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The church window.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : St Anthony Qozhaya Monastery
|
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The interior of the church uses the natural rock for its ceiling.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : St Anthony Qozhaya Monastery
|
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The altar.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : St Anthony Qozhaya Monastery
|
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Lamps.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : St Anthony Qozhaya Monastery
|
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The courtyard.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : St Anthony Qozhaya Monastery
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The monastery's land.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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Parts of the Qadisha Valley are very steep.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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The upper slopes.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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One of the many monasteries in the valley.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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Barren valley wall.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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Dramatic view of the valley.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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High settlement.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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Cemetary.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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View of the valley from the North rim.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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The small town of Kfar Saroun on the rim of the valley.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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A line of distant trees.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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Hasrun and Hadchit on opposite sides of the valley.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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View of Hasrun (1400m).
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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The spectacular setting of Hadchit, 1400m.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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Church at Hadchit.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
|
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View of Bcharre on the Northern rim of the valley.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
|
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The town is dominated by St Saba Church.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
|
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St Saba Church in the mist from the main square.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
|
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Bcharre is the largest town in the valley.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
|
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The hilly streets.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
|
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Bcharre Hospital.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
|
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Church of the Virgin.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
|
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View of the valley.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
|
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The valley from Bcharre.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
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Museum dedicated to the life and art of poet Khalil Gibran.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Statue of Khalil Gibran at the museum entrance.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
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The museum is built into the rock.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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The museum is in a house owned by the poet.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Steps to the road outside the house.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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The entrance.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Portraits of Khalil Gibran, Lebanon's national poet.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Furniture and personal effects.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Personal effects.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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The rooms are filled with artwork by the poet.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Many of the paintings are of naked women.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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"Divine World".
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Portraits of the poet's wife (charcoal).
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Woman.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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"Three Venus and Nature".
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Naked woman.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Sketch of a family scene.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Part of a series of paintings featuring a woman with a centaur.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Woman and centaur.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Portrait of a woman.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
City / Town : Bcharre
Site / Event : Khalil Gibran Museum
|
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Notre Dame de Lourdes Grotto is above the poet's house.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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Misty views near Bcharre.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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Desolate landscape near Bcharre.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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The Cedars of Lebanon.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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The Cedars of Lebanon is a sanctuary of nearly 400 cedar trees.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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Cedars belong to the same family as pine trees.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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Wall financed by Queen Victoria (1878) to keep out grazing goats.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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The sanctuary has some of Lebanon's oldest trees.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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The setting.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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One of the older trees.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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Cedars are a symbol of the country and are now protected.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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Deforestation began in ancient times with exports to Egypt, Israel and Greece.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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A group of priests from Greece and Cyprus.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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Greek priests.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
Site / Event : Cedars of Lebanon
|
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Priest from Cyprus.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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View from the south rim of the valley.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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View from the south rim.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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View from Haddith el-Jebba.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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View of Hasrun.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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Dramatic cloudy views near Hadchit.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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Dramatic views of the valley.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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One of the many Christian villages along the valley.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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A forest of cedars.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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The valley of Qadisha.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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One of the many Maronite churches in the valley.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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Isolated shrine.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Qadisha Valley
|
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View of Tripoli.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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12th century Crusader ramparts surround the old town.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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The Ottoman souks in the old Phoenician port.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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Narrow streets in the old city.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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One of the gates to the old city.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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Small Roman forum.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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Covered souk.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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Small Christian church.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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The Sultan Abdul Mosque dates from 1648.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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View of the old city.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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The Wax Museum is in an old mansion.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
Site / Event : Church of John The Baptist
|
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The Church of John The Baptist.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
Site / Event : Church of John The Baptist
|
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The external Baptistry was added by the Genoese in 1200.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
Site / Event : Church of John The Baptist
|
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Italian style ribbing from a period of rule by Genoa.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
Site / Event : Church of John The Baptist
|
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Bronze statue of the Crucifiction.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
Site / Event : Church of John The Baptist
|
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The church was built by the Crusaders.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
Site / Event : Church of John The Baptist
|
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Mosaic from an earlier Byzantine church.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
Site / Event : Church of John The Baptist
|
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Row of statues in the garden.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
Site / Event : Church of John The Baptist
|
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Statue.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
Site / Event : Church of John The Baptist
|
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The administration building.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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The Crusader tower at the Harbour.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
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The old Phoenician harbour.
|
2015 |
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