Tyre, Lebanon - UNESCO World Heritage Site

 Place: Tyre, Lebanon

Weather: Partly cloudy 64/81F.

Route: From Damascus 186 km WSW on Route 1 and Route 30M.

Population: 60,000

Significance: First Phoenician, then Greek, then Roman - this is one of the great Ancient cities in the Mediterranean. The founder of Carthage, Dido, supposedly was born here.  There are many Roman ruins here. The city declined after the end of the crusades in the middle ages.

Website: UNESCO World Heritage Site

Images:

Roman era columns (from whc.unesco.org)

A Roman triumphal arch that was reconstructed (from whc.unesco.org)