Anjar
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
Beqaa, Lebanon
PARK
TICKETED:
YES
PARKING:
YES
RESTROOMS:
YES
EST. 705
EST. 705
Early 700s
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Anjar.
Anjar preserves the excavated ruins of its Umayyad palace complex, a mosque, bathhouses, and colonnaded streets laid out on a rectangular grid within perimeter walls reinforced by towers, surviving mainly as foundations and partial standing walls. The site is administered by Lebanon's Directorate General of Antiquities and is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It lies in open ground and is accessible to the public on a ticketed basis.
About Anjar
Anjar was built in the early eighth century, around 714, under the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I as a planned inland city in the Bekaa Valley. Its grid of colonnaded streets contained palaces, a mosque, baths, and shops within a fortified rectangular enclosure. The city served briefly as a commercial and administrative center before Umayyad power collapsed.
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