Lebanon: Baalbek

On Our tour of Lebanon you can spend time enjoying the impressive site of Baalbeck, a gigantic complex of Roman temples possibly the largest ever built, and one of the highlights of our tour to Lebanon. The city was known to the Greeks as Heliopolis the city of the sunas the Phoenicians worshipped the sun god Baal here. The Romans constructed a huge temple to Bacchus (detailed sculpture work reveals twining vines, poppies and wheat– symbols of the cult of Bacchus) and also the Temple of Jupiter, reached by a monumental staircase.