Yammoune
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Yammoune is a lake, nature reserve, village and municipality situated 27 kilometres northwest of Baalbek in Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon. The village had a few hundred inhabit
The Naba al-Arbain spring of Yammoune
1921 reconstruction of the Baalbelk temple complex
Beqaa Valley
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The Beqaa Valley is a fertile valley in eastern Lebanon and its most important farming region. Industry, especially the country's agricultural industry, also flourishes in Beqaa. The region broadly co
Yammoune
…Yammoune towards Marjhine. A network of rock-cut irrigation channels and watercourses lead from Lake Yammoune to provide irrigation for the region of the Beqaa Valley around Baalbek. Marvin H. Pope identified the home of El in the Ugaritic texts of ca. 1200 BCE, described as "at the source[s] of the [two] rivers, in…
Grapevines near Kasarnaba, overlooking the central Beqaa Valley
Zahlé, the capital of the Beqaa Governorate
Municipal garden of Qabb Ilyas
The Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek