Things to see and do Lybia

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Leaving the Sévérienne basilica by the north, we follow a path that runs along the Byzantine wall to the Byzantine door. This wall wall was designed to protect the city from attacks by Berber tribes. The wall and door use stones from Roman buildings.

(An 12 Apr. ). Between Cardo and Theatre.

Leaving the south-east of the market, we lead to the path of the Cardo, with as a perspective the sober arc of Tiberius (35-36 apr. ) and then the arc de Trajan (109-110) in the second plan. The four-arch arch (tétrapyle) of Trajan, built in commemoration of the city's access to colony status, orne Libyan banknotes with a quarter of a dinar. The Trajan arc allowed traffic, unlike the arc De arc.

Between the two arches, one will note an engraved stone of an abundance horn, and a circle and a stick symbolizing the god Mercury.

The path you take at the entrance to the site leads to the right line with a view overlooking this fabulous arch, built in 203 apr. On the occasion of the visit of the emperor born in Leptis Magna in 146. The bow is located at the intersection of the two main tracks of the city, the Cardo maximus and the one which connected Tunisia (Carthage) to Alexandria. Raised from three large steps, the arc did not allow the passage of the tanks, which had to bypass the imposing monument.

This arc of 40 m in 40 has four entrances (tétrapyle arc) and three floors, for a height of about 20 m. It is entirely made of limestone, only its surface was covered with carved marble. Some marble ornamentations have been restored, including vine friezes. However, most of the original marble are at the Tripoli Museum. Thus winged victories on each side of the arcades and the great besieged on the four sides of the Attica (the summit of the arc on which statues were laid), which appear as August scenes of the life of the emperor and his family:

It is also possible to visit the old town of Jedid, the historic heart of Sebha now emptied of its inhabitants. Quite difficult to find. Ask "medina al-gadima Jedid".

Continue straight and turn left at the Angle angle: Palaestra is located north of Hadrian's thermal baths. It was in this vast shaped stage divided by paved aisles that men were involved in physical exercises, such as struggle and race, before going to the baths. The palaestra is surrounded by about terrazzo columns in cipolin marble. During its construction, like the thermal baths in the 72nd century, columns supported the portico. Many of them were purchased from the Libyan tribes by French consul Claude Lemaire to be shipped to France in the th century.

(th century. ). From the old forum, orient direction north west by borrowing the small path along the shore on the right, until the wall of Byzantine enceinte. We will then discover the three main columns of cipolin marble from the frigidarium of Hadrian's thermal baths, lined in the sand. Then move to the southwest. The temple of Sérapis is recognizable in its four columns. The Christian living in Leptis worship their God there. The inscriptions that have been discovered are in Greek only. In Hellenistic times, the Rois kings of Alexandria made Sérapis a syncretic deity embodying the characteristics of the Egyptian God Osiris and of Greek gods like Zeus, Hades, Dionysus and Asclépios, God of Medicine. Subsequently, his cult developed in the Roman world.

Meaning "needles" in Arabic is the name given to the obelisk trim mausoleums. There are two who easily see about 35 km from Beni Walid on the route of Misratha and Zliten, which runs along the Wadi Wadi, before it crosses the trough of the Wadi. The remains of a fortified farm were found nearby. With the shrines-temples that can be seen in the northern necropolis of Ghirza, this type of obelisk was built by Berber farmers romanisés along the defensive boundary of the limès, the limit of Empire from the reign of Emperor Septime Severe.

This great mosque is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful in the country. It houses the tomb of Sidi Abdel Salam al-Asmar, a Sufi theologian of the sixteenth century, revered as a marabout and founder of a Koranic school that became a university of Islamic studies at a later date: Al-Asmary University in front of the mosque. A painting in the courtyard on the left of the mosque represents the latter as it was at the time of Sidi Abdel Salam, while its current appearance dates back to the 1980 s and is distinguished by a profusion of tiles of carved ceramics and stucco stucco.

The Koranic school hosts about 800 girls and 1 800 boys graduating from school. At the bottom of the courtyard of the mosque is the dormitory of the students. Vendeurs are often mailed to the mosque.

It is now inhabited by Correspondent, the great nomads living between Libya, Niger and above all Chad. There is a beautiful Ottoman fort at the palm wood door, which can be visited when the guard is there.

Following this path east from the Arc Sévère arc, it will be noted that the centre of the track was dug to insert it into the city's wastewater drainage system. At the angle of Decumanus and the street leading to Hadrian's thermal baths, by turning their eyes on the angle wall, one will distinguish a phallus engraved in the center of a stone, with an eye to its right, the harmful influences of the latter (the bad eye) being neutralized, according to Roman belief, by the protective properties and bienfaitrices of the phallus.

Starting at the height of the nymphée, the path to the Columns, drawn from the cord, stretched 420 m to the Roman port. It was 50 m wide, or 20 m between columns. Each side of the avenue had 125 columns on which the arches, without entablements, were directly rooted in Islamic architecture. This imposing avenue was part of the great beautification works of the city carried out in the early th century under the reign of Emperor Septime Sévère and was built at the initial geographic location of the Oued, which was built in the Punic city, the wadiLebda. The course was hijacked prior to construction as part of the construction of the port at the same time.

From the Curia, go along a caged barrier surrounding the remains of the Punic town uncovered during excavations, then take a small path to the right and continue about 150 m. One can also go northeast to the location of the Western pier warehouses. Little spectacular and distant, to visit only by those who have all their time. At the time of carthaginian, the mouth of the wadiLebda provided a natural shelter to the ships, which was partially installed under Nero. But it was under the reign of Septime Harsh that the port was actually highlighted, by diversion east of the natural course of the Wadi, originally located at the location of the Columns and which charriait charriait responsible for a regular silting of the estuary.

The port, with a circumference of 1 200 m, with its 800 m of docks and the possibilities of anchorages outside the perimeter of the Périmètre Oriental Pier now submerged, represented the third harbour of the Roman world, after Ostia and Carthage. The harbour is now sleeping under the alluvial Du Wadi Wadi, but it is still possible to distinguish certain remnants of harbour facilities, such as the base of the lighthouse at the western pier or the wharf limestone blocks.

Much more impressive is the market visit to the camels of Sebha, one of the most important of the country, where sheep and camelidae arrive from the Niger and Chad. Very impressive during the days preceding the Eid holidays. Difficult to find. The simplest is to take the outer boulevard of the city side west and then to ask the road to the Al-Jimal souk. you will have to go into a very modest area of barracks, enclos and workshops before reaching the market.

Overlooking the city and built near the airport, it was built by the Ottomans and occupied by Italian troops (1929-1943) and French (1943-1951). This garrison function is still current, and you will not be able to visit or photograph it.

A length of 22 m, it presents 26 columns with capitals. There is a koutab (school) where children learn the Koran. The prayer room is closed to the visits (it only opens for Friday prayer), but the corner of des, with its half-subterranean niches, supported by twisted columns. This mosque marks the border between the two large districts of Ghadamès, the Beni Oulid and the Beni Ouazit. Columns, capitals and decor come from a church of the Byzantine era and were recovered to dress mosques and public squares.

Inside the cemetery, a marble plaque documents the words of General de Gaulle in London on 18 June 1942: " The world knew France when, at Bir Hakeim, a radius of its revived glory came to caresser the bloody front of its soldiers. " At the end of the main aisle, a Lorraine cross monument bears two marble plates where one can read the story of the fighting conducted by the free 1 st French brigade in Bir Hakeim (80 km south of Tobruk) on 27 May 1942, and from 1 to 10 June 1942. These high military facts are exhibited in a very pedagogic way in the small museum adjoining the cemetery. This cemetery houses the remains of the first four French soldiers killed in Cyrenaica in January 1941, those of eight French soldiers killed in Kufra in 1941 and those of French soldiers previously buried in Bir Hakeim cemetery whose geographical isolation made maintenance difficult. The cemetery was renovated in 2002.

The German cemetery is housed in a large square in ochre stone with four towers of angle. The inhabitants of small, precarious homes built at the foot of the fort will come to you. There is an austere atmosphere maintained by the hisses of high voltage lines and the breathing of the oil plant located below. In the center of the court, four kneeling angels bear the «bassin of the eternal flame», while on three sides the names of the German soldiers killed in Tobruk pass on a black background under the arcades. Climb on the ramparts of the fort to enjoy a complete panorama on the bay and the town of Tobruk, with, at the forefront, oil facilities.

It has been beautifully restored. Its plan is consistent with the classical scheme on the southern shore of the Mediterranean: it has three naves divided by two baseboards with five columns each. At the entrance to the basilica, a tank was discovered in the north and in the south a grave containing bones of children and adults. It may be a martyriale or burial basilica, as appears to indicate the discovery of five collective or individual graves, probably those of buried persons near the relic of a saint resting in a martyrium (north-west exhibit). Beautiful clear blue marbles make up the whole. They would come from Proconèse or Dassilio-Aliki in Greece. The marble plates, marked or still resting on the ground, are carved on each side of motifs based on diamond, cross, rosettes and lilies. These plates (31 in all) were carved in Greece.

250 m later, at the level of the eastern basilica, a magnificent arch-shaped islet in the middle of the creek. The larger Eastern basilica is not restored. This cathedral was the seat of the Diocese. During the first Arab invasion, it was fortified and recovered in the baptistery (south-east) the relics and bones of the western Basilica abandoned. Itself was abandoned during the second Arab invasion (th century).