THE VILLAGE

Byblos is a charming small village that will be the occasion for a pleasant walk. However, it is unfortunate that the old town is accessible to cars!

After visiting the ruins of Byblos, you enter the medieval town dominated by the Castle of the Crusaders. Housed in the ancient site, the city is surrounded by a rampart built at the time of the crusaders and then rebuilt by Arabs and Ottomans. It stretches 270 metres from east to west and 200 metres from north to south.

Built at the ramparts, Notre-Dame-de-la-Porte chapel borders the eastern end of the square adjacent to the archaeological site. There is also the beautiful white minaret of Sultan Abed el-Majid Mosque (built in 1648 and renovated in 1783). To the west, narrow streets lined with pink laurels, descend to the port. This can be lost in the maze of these streets and admire the beautiful Lebanese houses. Stone walls, red roof roofs, warhead windows, colonnades… Byblos is one of the few cities in the country to have succeeded in preserving its typical architecture. The summer mornings, the streets are quiet. The inhabitants, cut behind their tracks, turn to their occupations in the freshness of darkness. In the evening and during the festival, this is another story!

By descending to the port and adjacent to the archaeological site, the chapel Nossa Senhora Da Penna is charming and tiny.