Built the city of Anjar on a rectangular plan, and held around the wall with a length of 370 meters and 310 meters wide. Has supported the walls from the Foreign thirty six semi-circular tower angles also supported by four circular towers. The thickness of these walls about two meters, with more than seven meters high.
They built limestone made when faced with a building, overlooking the easy foreign and interior overlooking the city, of divider stone Fill vacuum between them with a mixture of stone gravel steel and lime mud. Are scattered here and there on the front wall of Foreign scribble up to sixty Scribble engraving some visitors or residents in the Umayyad period, including one dating back to 123 for Migration, 741 AD.
The buildings that are within the city, was built on the style popularized its use in the Byzantine era, and depends on the sequence building blocks and stone building blocks bricks pottery, and that this method and means to mitigate the gravity structure and to give building some flexibility enables it to face the danger of earthquakes, in addition to being based on Technology constructivism rapid implementation and modest cost.
Held the fence is facing a four sides of the four sides Home, opening in the center of each door flanked by two towers Nsfian, was split two major roads up one door north door south, and up the other eastern door door west, so they meet in the city center and Iktaanha into four districts Under the architectural style that was based upon the establishment of Roman military barracks, which is commonly used when building modern cities since the days of the Romans to the Byzantine era. The confluence of these two routes what is known in the history of architecture as "Gate Quartet," which was used in ancient inception structural elements have been extracted from one of the Romanian firms. As penetrate the central streets of the city sewage network of the stomach to drain waste water has been equipped with the necessary holes for the control and cleaned. In order to focus on the Anjar role as a center of trade, was held in the city about 600 shop, entry into and exit from the of thatched hallway located on both sides of the roads.
And occupies the south-eastern district prestige between Anjar neighborhoods, it contains what is known as the "Grand Palace" and mosque of the city, with houses and housing distributed throughout the southwestern neighborhood. The north-eastern district contains a palace last is known as the "Little Palace", the opposite of the mosque, also contains a bathroom built close to the northern city gate. The Northwest district, in turn contains a small bathroom in addition to not specify the structure and function, and may be the basis for third palace did not work it was over when the destruction of the city and abandoned.
It is striking that these three palaces have adopted design is almost one. Vmjmaha consists of four buildings built around an inner courtyard and one surrounded by a wall of a joint campus. This courtyard leads to two reception rooms, consisting of three parallel markets, ends its main Bhanih market, while leading from the other side to private rooms and rooms on the upper floor.
The mosque in the city adjacent to the Grand Palace from the north, relatively modest Vmqaaash, as a depth of about 10 meters, breadth of 20 meters, and niche mediating tribal wall overlooking the palace.The mosque consists of a prayer hall and courtyard roof, contains wells provide water for ablution basin.The courtyard of the mosque doors, one leading to the main street stretching from east to west, and another leading to the "market" located at the intersection of two streets.
The housing southwestern neighborhood, were distributed among a number of lanes separated by alleys perpendicular, consisting each of two to four houses or six houses. Almost all the houses of Anjar adopt the same design, as it consists of a dish is thatched surrounded by a number of rooms.
And close to the northern city gate bathroom design depends on the traditional style is common in the Roman baths, Byzantine, and who came to us via Arabic and Turkish baths. The bathroom consists of a waiting room or lounge, surmounted by a dome raised on four pillars, followed by cold room Valvatrh Valharh.
The site is open to visitors every day, throughout the year, and close to the ruins, the visitor finds a number of cafes and restaurants that offer a delicious Lebanese dishes and Armenian, as well as fresh trout. It must be noted that the Anjar lacks hotels, especially since the town of Chtaura away from her for more than 15 kilometers.
If you time permits, do not hesitate to visit Anjar spring which gave its name to the city, which is located about 3 kilometers to the north-east.
Also does not hesitate to visit the Roman temple which was built on a hill Majdal Anjar, just one kilometer to the west of Anjar, as well as the existing Roman temple in the town of Kfar Zabad.
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Lebanon