Travel Guide Joun

The village of Prat became famous for welcoming an eccentric English in the th century, Lady Stanhope, daughter of Charles Stanhope, third earl of the name. Born in 1766, this passionate and passionate woman of politics fled to the East, at the beginning of the th century, as a result of adventure in the Syrian desert. She claims to have been a new queen of Palmyra, obtains the protection of the sultan and takes an important place in the region. In 1818, she withdrew from Joun. It mêla with endless political squabbles, always supporting the Druze cause that it pushes to revolt. The Bashir blockade is taking the Joun blockade but, under the protection of Lady Stanhope, the village is resisting. Then she began to lose reason and criminalized witchcraft and astrology. In 1839, it died dead and neglected.