Baalbek

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Baalbek

2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Baalbek.

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UNESCO sites in Baalbek

  • BaalbekCultural · 1984 · 1 km

    This Phoenician city, where a triad of deities was worshipped, was known as Heliopolis during the Hellenistic period. It retained its religious function during Roman times, when the sanctuary of the Heliopolitan Jupiter …

  • Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)Cultural · 1998 · 31 km

    The Qadisha valley is one of the most important early Christian monastic settlements in the world. Its monasteries, many of which are of a great age, stand in dramatic positions in a rugged landscape. Nearby are the rema…

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