Byblos International Festival

The Byblos international festival is one of the biggest Lebanese festivals which attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world to the shores of Lebanon,to Byblos first city in Phoenicia founded around 5000BC.[1]

HISTORY

Byblos annual festival was created in 2003 to achieve many goals:

  1. promote tourism
  2. show the Lebanese culture
  3. spread music and art from the middle east to the whole planet[2]

the festivals take place by the sea side in the historic quarter in front of the big castle built by the Crusaders in the 12th every year in July regrouping Lebanese and international artists[1]

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Interactive Panorama

Byblos Port by Karim Saad June 10, 2011

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