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Temples Of Baalbek
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Baalbek is nested in a plain between the parallel ranges of Lebanon
and Anti-Lebanon mountains. It is one of the world's greatest
historical sites, the most gigantic complex of Roman temples
ever built, its columns are the tallest ever erected, its
stones the largest ever used.The Acropolis of Baalbek is the
largest and best preserved corpus of Roman architecture left
to us. Its temples, dedicated to Jupiter, Venus and Bacchus
(larger than Parthenon in Athens), were built in the second
and third centuries A.D. The ruins present a majestic
ensemble: two temples, two courtyards preceded by propylaea
(ceremonial entrances), and huge blocks particularly the three
which each measure between 19-20m. by 4.5m by 3.6m., and a
boundary wall upon which Arab architecture has left its
traces. Six immense columns (20m.) still soar upwards from the
holy place where the Temple of Jupiter once stood.
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Baalbek Castle
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Take
the main international Damascus Highway winding up Lebanon's
mountains, pass villages like Aley, Bhamdoun, Sofar, Dahr
el-Baidar, Chtaura, Zahle, Riyak and then to Baalbek.
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