| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Sidon
Site / Event : Echmoun
|
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A later Roman street.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Sidon
Site / Event : Echmoun
|
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Roman residential area.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Sidon
Site / Event : Echmoun
|
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Roman steps with mosaics.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Sidon
Site / Event : Echmoun
|
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Byzantine church.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Sidon
Site / Event : Echmoun
|
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Roman mosaic.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
|
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The Chouf Mountains.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
|
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The Chouf Mountains are in the south of the country.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
|
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The region is very fertile.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
|
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A valley populated by Druze.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
|
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Hillside settlement.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
|
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The town of Kfar Him.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Dmit
|
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Dmit is a Druize town.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Dmit
|
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Druze prayer house.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Dmit
|
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Druze prayer house. The Druze are a branch of Islam.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
|
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Steep valley.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
|
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A wide valley.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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The village of Deir el-Qamar.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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Deir el-Qamar means "Monastery of the Moon".
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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The village is set on the edge of the valley.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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Steep staircase.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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The main square is surrounded by 17th and 18th century Ottoman buildings.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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The village was the capital of a Druze emir, Fakhr ud-Din II Maan.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Mosque
|
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The Fakhr ud-Din Mosque dominates the main square.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Mosque
|
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The octagonal minaret.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Mosque
|
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The mosque dates from 1493.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Mosque
|
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The interior.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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Cloisters from an Ottoman warehouse.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
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The Fakhr ud-Din Palace is on the main square.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
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Wax model of Fakhr ud-Din inside the palace entrance.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
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The palace was built using stone from a defeated rival pasha's fort.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
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Entrance to one of the rooms.
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2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
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The rooms display wax models of people who have played a part in the history of Lebanon.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
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Wax models of Franco, Rustem and Daoud, three Pashas.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
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Carved doorway.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
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Carved stone work.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
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Wax models of religious and political leaders.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
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Wax models of a Pope.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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The Old Souk overlooks the main square.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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The Old Souk was once used by cobblers.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Younes Maan Palace
|
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The Younes Maan Palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Younes Maan Palace
|
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Carved entrance.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Younes Maan Palace
|
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The palace is now a tea house and puppet museum.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Silk Khan
|
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The Silk Khan was built in 1595.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Silk Khan
|
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Side chamber.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Silk Khan
|
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The khan is set by a hillside.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Silk Khan
|
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Part of the khan is used as a library.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Silk Khan
|
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The cloisters.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Silk Khan
|
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Stone fountain.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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The Jesuit school.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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The house of poet Nicolas el-Turq.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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A 17th century synagogue.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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The village is built from the local stone.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Church of Saidet et-Talle
|
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The Maronite Church of Saidet et-Talle.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Church of Saidet et-Talle
|
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The church dates from the 16th century.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Church of Saidet et-Talle
|
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The church was built on the site of a Phoenician temple to the godess, Astarte.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Church of Saidet et-Talle
|
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The stone interior.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Church of Saidet et-Talle
|
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A series of icons.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Church of Saidet et-Talle
|
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A small side chapel.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Ahmad Chehab Palace
|
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The entrance to the Ahmad Chehab Palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Ahmad Chehab Palace
|
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The palace dates from 1755.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Ahmad Chehab Palace
|
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In 1784 the palace was the base of resistance to the Ottomans by Ibrahim Pasha.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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Narrow streets of the village.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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The Maronite convent.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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View of the village.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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View across the valley and farmland.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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View across the valley.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
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View of the Beiteddine Palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The entrance to the Beiteddine Palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The palace was built by Emir Bashir Shihab II in the early 19th century.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The palace is the Summer residence of the President of Lebanon.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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A series of apartments used as guest accommodation.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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A group of school students.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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Corner of the courtyard.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The main entrance is at the end of a large courtyard.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The garden.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The garden with a mosaic from a 5th century Byzantine church.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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A large mosaic in the garden taken from a Byzantine church.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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Stained glass balcony window.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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View of the valley from the garden.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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View from the garden.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The stables and barracks.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The baracks could accommodate 500 soldiers.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The stables and barrack area is now a museum of mosaics.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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Mosaic with vases and birds.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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Mosaic with birds.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The stables could house 600 horses.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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Doorway flanked with mosaics.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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Animal mosaic.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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One of a series of Byzantine mosaics.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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Byzantine mosaic from a 5th century church.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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Large Byzantine mosaic.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The stables.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The cloisters.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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Stunning views from the stables.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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Terraced famland.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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View of Deir el_Qamar from the palace grounds.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The main courtyard from the stable entrance.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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Entrance to the Dar el-Wousta, the inner palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The beautiful courtyard of the Dar el-Wousta, the inner palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
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The courtyard of the inner palace.
|
2015 |
were added from 1 February 2025.