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Tuesday 28 October 2014

Tourist attractions in Lebanon Part 1

Some Tourist attractions in Lebanon:


Beaufort Castle 




Located in Lebanon, and is located approximately 1 km from the Arnon and considered Beaufort Castle, which is located in the southern Lebanese town of Arnon of the most important archaeological and historical castles in Lebanon, but in the whole Arab world, because of its strategic location featured. It sits on top of a mountain towering steep, As it oversees all of Syria, Palestine and Lebanon .. and construction dates back to before the Middle Ages. The first of its founder is not known, but it is almost certain that the Romans were the first to put her Bbnaúhm basically a small fortress on the hill upon which the castle. There are sources suggest that the Crusaders may be built to form the bulwark of their armies. There is no doubt that the hands of the conquerors and invaders have manipulated this castle between demolition and destruction and in addition, depending on the plans of war and to taste Urban, was re-dilapidated including visits from the Crusaders and other Muslims and sometimes from the feudal rulers of the princes of Syria, Lebanon and Mount Aaml.kma it did not surrender from the hands of the Israelis who messed with her ​​until she returned exhausted this time, topped the rubble, which missed most of the features and mingled Lower Olaya decks and collapsed tunnels network even seemed dismembered stolen monuments, but it nevertheless is still remaining stones delivered from theft instill itself in the arteries of the land and adheres to its roots and the castle called in French le chateau de beaufort due to the advantage of his immunity and hardness, it also has several foreign names carry a wonderful meanings, including "Eagle Eye" and "Ein Ghazal." It was known in Arabic Balhqiv due to the towering height that is almost touching the sky.

Shehabite Castle 




Castle meteor, meteor or Saraya, is in the heart of the ancient castle Hasbaya region, the capital of the Valley of Tim and either history, there is no evidence about who built the castle. Its history is well known starts with the Crusaders, but it may be due to the further back in time to be a fortress built by the Arabs or the building of the Romans and may have seen the castle over the years a lot of victories and setbacks where exposed several times to fire, which in the year 1284, when the Mongol armies entered Syria and Palestine for by Tim Valley, and in 1612 following a dispute between Ahmed Pasha and Prince Amir Ali Shihabi Hasbaya and landmarks ranges for either high outer walls of Saraya between 15 and 20 meters and about 220 meters in circumference. Monument two lions at the entrance opposite chains and handcuffed in front of them Ernban Tliqan in reference to social justice. As the lion's strong handcuffed and weak rabbit free and loose. The entrance is a crusader with a height of 32 meters, which is held in the highest average of the east, and the panel above the entrance reading "than the work of drawing and Sidi Moulay Prince Ali Shihabi in the year 1009 AH." The castle consists of four sections, three above ground and below the section. At home, residential rooms and cellars. The bottom layer was used for the underground storage of supplies and ammunition. In order to reach the second upstairs you'll pass a narrow staircase reveals inscriptions and decorations and colors and plate reading verses of poetry glorifying Balshihabaan and commemorate them in the reception room inside a piece of yellow marble of the structure of a miniature man. The third class are the creation of princes Alshihabien, so where abound windows and archways of the Arab-Islamic style. And in front of Diwan decorations crusade flowers represent a slogan tinfoil, the royal family in France .......


Rashayya Castle 






Rashayya Castle is one of the most important Lebanese castles and have known the name of independence Castle and built by the Crusaders in the atheist century in the town of Rashaya in the western Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, to protect convoys of merchants coming from Palestine towards the Levant and protect the processions of pilgrims and travelers across the valley Tim from Damascus to Jerusalem in Palestine and stands Rashayya about Crusader castle tower, which rises about 1,400 m above sea level and extends over an area of ​​8,000 square meters in a strategic location surrounded by cliffs on three sides and facing the fourth summit of Hermon. The castle entrance is from the south and resembles walls thick Aaqbitha multiple Beaufort Crusader castle corridors and Baknatrha identical with barrages of Beiteddine Palace building raised Roman including corridors distance of 1500 m up to the appointed Marie near Aqaba triangle - Bakifa, and was used for the movement of fighters and securing supply in case of siege It features buildings and triggering a crusade and wells carved rock was bridged today with the exception of one well is still valid for use. Lower cellars of the castle where the archaeological hall and store from the north-east, and the tower of the south-west, which is the highest peak in the castle.
And the buildings and the effects of Shehabiye back to the year 1370 when the Prince of Abu Bakr took over the mandate of the Shahab-Hasbaya and he comes with his wife and daughter to Rashayya for fishing and hunting, he built a house inside the castle. Chehabs also built the castle entrance and railings and archways of the southwestern flank either the east wall was built by the French after their entry into the castle users stones surrounding homes after Tahedimha. What homeowners names still exist at the entrance to the northern part of the castle as well as the parameters of the Church within the campus of the castle and the castle has witnessed many of the events, including the famous battle in the November 22, 1925 ............



Tripoli Castle 





Tripoli Castle is located in the city of Tripoli this castle known as the "San Gil" or "Snagal" Castle proportion to Count Crusader Raymond de Saint-Gilles, and famous Bmqaaasha huge menu at the top of the hump oversees all over the city and overlooking the Kadisha River. The castle is one of the forts and towers series was in ancient times surrounding the dome and the town and the port and built to come back early twelfth century, during the siege of the city, where built by the Crusaders, and they have taken a center for military campaigns .... and characterized castle stones, sand smooth-like stones more cities in the Mediterranean coast , from Gaza to Alexandria ... and either engraved on the stones are signs of a crusade characteristics and signs of either division of the castle are Aqlah rectangular and polygonal, with a length of the northern entrance to the extreme southern tip of 136 meters and a width of Mediterranean up to 70 meters. The Astgamatha Vksman: internal and external. The outer moat of the author and a series of towers and blocking. The trench carved in the rock at the western tip, which is above the ground at the other end, and extends from the face of the twenty-fourth tower to face the fourth tower, so Vijaoz seventy meters in length, and display it at a rate of five meters. The depth ranges from two meters and three meters.
The series consists towers blocking of twenty-five towers and eyebrow. If we went out of the door of the big castle and tried to N'Dour about this series, we see to our right and our left towers Jaddedhma Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1521, and the two do not go beyond five meters high. And we can see at the top of the two towers of four slots and a multitude of Almzagl Almkahal and balconies and some warships. We can also see the parties some old columns that are used to connect the walls of the two towers and Tqoathma, which juts and tidy columns arrangement engineered is set, seven in the first tower and six in the second and if we completed the siRNA to the left towards the western and southern external fortifications, we find a vehicle of seven towers and four block, We find in all of the top ten slots for guns and about 10 Mzagl also. The thickness of these towers and blocking ranges between six and seven meters.
Of the castle, with the exception of the big door in the first tower, two small doors are nearly Ikunan Invisible: the one at the bottom of the second tower and the other ten in the twenty-second base of the tower. It is said that there are secret basements and cellars lead one group is immune from the inside to the outside of the castle.
Number defender slots in this castle exceed twenty, and the number and Mzaglha Mkahlha exceed seventy. Fuad Effendi taste and mentions that he had found the year 1910 more than 400 cannon of copper was sent to Germany to cast a second height walls of this castle between 5 meters and 19 meters, and the method of construction increases immunity because large stones made ​​Court, stacked on each other, and all the walls are saturated with mortar . If we add to this all Vsanha multiple chambers, we realize something of their resistance and persistence in the course of the siege was where he found tank large in the tower seventh and two others in the vicinity of the great tower, in addition to the chain were used to raise the share of the castle from the water of the river that passes by her side and of inscriptions in which two lines in Arabic over the place and found the entrance to the tower next to the thirteenth.

Fort Anjar 




Fort Angertbad 58 Iklan Beirut which Qsrsifa Dungeons built Alhalifaalamue Walid bin Abdul Malik on the old road, which was up the Bekaa Valley Bgoth Damascus and located his Anjar near the old fort site was called (on) Marine Biology and Altgosaiat archeological you can not locate the old fort site, however, that the name (on) remained alive to this day through the eye Almealta was Roaha which gave the city current name appointed on or Anjar mentions Fort Anjar scheme schemes Roman camps Byzantine is almost square surrounded by a fence fortified towers half Dirah and broken Streetan perpendicular to the four sections where the remnants spread palaces, shops and swimming pools and a mosque                      
                                                                  And we will continue 

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