2024

MEGHAZEL

Towers to visit

Other point of interest, meghazel, which are monumental funeral towers. They will return to the fourth century B.C. Imposing dimensions, the two towers still proudly erected facing the sea were part of a whole forming a necropolis. They both have a recorded that is reached under the tower by a stair of stairs (a torch torch is indispensable). In Persian style, the highest of the cylindrical towers adorned with lions'landforms. Further south (1 km to the right on the Homs Road) is another funeral monument of the same type: the Bourj el-Bezzak.

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2024

TEMPLE

Religious buildings

Al-Maabad ("the temple" in Arabic) is dedicated to the Phoenician god Melqart associated with the Egyptian Echmoun and the Hercules of Greeks. A sanctuary is high in the centre of a basin. The square pillars are égyptisants, while merlons (parts full of a deux parapet between two niches) of baja (inner and central part of a temple) are mesopotamian influences. The telling of the primitive city is located right next to the temple. On the other side of the Wadi, the traces of a stadium are distinguished. The stands are clearly visible, and the track is tufts of herbs and pebbles. Back to the temple, return to the paved road, through the dessinés paths. We see the towers through barbed wire.

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