Aanjar Umayyad City Ruins

The town of Anjar is one of the most beautiful natural and archaeological areas in Lebanon, as it has a distinctive nature, mixed with ancient ruins in it, in a unique formation that the alphabet stands at a loss when describing it. The reason for naming Anjar is due to the eye that erupts at the nearby foothills of the eastern Lebanon mountains, which was previously known as "Ain Jera". This town was founded by the Umayyad caliph, Al-Walid bin Abd al-Malik, at the beginning of the eighth century AD, with the help of a group of highly experienced engineers and builders in the field of decoration, and they used columns, capitals, and other Roman and Byzantine remains from the neighboring regions. Because of the fall of the caliphate, the passage of time, and the outbreak of conflicts and wars, this architectural masterpiece was destroyed, and nothing remains of it today except for some ruins, in addition to the ancient Baalbek Mosque. It is the only Umayyad city in the world that still stands tall to this day.