Notre-Dame de la Porte entrance.

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Old Souk Entrance, Port Side

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About

The Notre-Dame de la Porte entrance.

This gate in the medieval wall is distinguished by the small niche housing the statue of the Virgin. In 1776, the Maronite monks took possession of the city’s churches with the help of the soldiers of Emir Youssef Chehab.

About Byblos

The city of Jbeil is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. 8,000 years ago, it was a fishermen village that grew afterwards to a large Canaanite and then Phoenician city. Later on, it was turned into a Roman agglomeration whose many vestiges can still be observed, suggesting an ancient richness. An important Crusader city, Jbeil was fortified by the still-visible rampart within the walls of which a castle and a cathedral were built. During the Ottoman period, the city had a souk, large houses with red-tiled roofs and mosques.