Are we out of the woods yet? 🌲🌲..@jabalmoussa : Discovering Jabal... (Qehmez)
February 13, 2018 by antoniohab
Are we out of the woods yet? 🌲🌲
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@jabalmoussa : Discovering Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve is also discovering the interdependence between humans and nature.
Jabal Moussa and its surroundings present spiritual and historical sites, all of them integrated in their natural environment.Â
Such sites include: Adonis Valley as the site of death of god Adonis according to Phoenician mythology, Roman Stairs in Mchati and Ghineh, rock carvings by the Emperor Hadrian dating back to the 2nd century AD in Mchati and Broqta where certain types of trees were ordered to be protected, the remains of old houses isolated in the mountain, an abandoned Ottoman settlement comprising a water mill, farms and an olive press by the river in Chouwan, a Byzantine Church that includes a mosaic in Ghineh, the Adonis rock in Ghineh showing the killing of the God Adonis during a hunt, the Mar Geryes Monastery built on the remains of a Roman temple and a cross erected at the mountain summit in 2000.
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