Lebanon - Historic Center of Batroun

Batroun is a small port located on the sea whose old houses (a large part of which is on the Lebanese Official List of Listed Monuments and Listed Historical Monuments and Sites) organized around narrow alleys are an example of traditional Lebanese architecture. There are, in addition, the remains of a Roman amphitheater whose steps are cut in the rock. Recent archaeological excavations have uncovered a necropolis (sarcophagi) and Byzantine mosaics. Other vestiges representative of the successive occupations (vestiges of the Phoenician period, medieval castle located on a ground being expropriation, etc.) make of Batroun an important witness of the history of Lebanon. A few kilometers north of Batroun, the medieval castle of Mseileha built on a rocky peak is quite impressive. The surrounding lands are currently the subject of an expropriation procedure.