| Page Views: 3,370 Last Visit to Baalbeck: May, 2004 | Roman grandeur by TheWanderingCamel - last update: May 14, 2005 |
Greek Heliopolis - the City of the Sun - when the Romans took it over and started to build the temples there in 60BC Baalbek became absolute epitome of all the excesses of Rome, so clearly evidenced now in these gargantuan ruins. They add a new meaning to the word "monumental" and yet, from a distance, such is their perfection of scale, tthey appear to be the size of other temples of the era. It's only when you actually come near that you realize how massive they actually are, dwarfing the memory of any other temple you may have seen.
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mlakis Wed Aug 12, 2009 21:44 UTC
Night at Baalbeck is the hallmark of the Old town. But regarding food, your comment should be updated, there are a lot of new restaurants and they are delicious: Rawabi restaurant is one of them. | atufft Tue Feb 24, 2009 05:45 UTC
The extremely tall columns and some aspects of the layout and artwork definetly resembles the Temple of Baal in Palmyra...nice writing as usual...alan | Herwig1961 Wed Feb 18, 2009 07:00 UTC
Amazing page and place!What a pity that I didn`t have the chance to visit this place when I have been in Lebanon!Thanks to you I can see it now. | willy_wonka Wed Sep 26, 2007 06:42 UTC
this is beautiful page on a marvellous archaeological site leyle! the bacchus temple looks sublime. im seriously thinking of giving uzbekistan a miss for next year, and doing ME instead. leave UZ for another time. im confused! :) |
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