Beit Mery
Beit Mery
بيت مري | |
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City | |
UTC+3 (EEST) | |
Dialing code | +961-4- |
Beit Mery (
Culture
The town is the site of the annual Al Bustan festival,
Among the artists who performed at the festival, Julian Lloyd Webber (cellist), Gautier Capuçon (cellist), Gianluca Marciano (conductor), Virginia Tola (soprano), Inva Mula (soprano), Helikon Opera, Stile Antico, Evelyn Glennie (percussions), Boris Berezovsky (pianist), Khatia Buniatishvili (pianist), Alondra de la Parra (conductor), Oliver Poole (pianist), Anna Tifu (violin), Cuarteto Latinoamericano (string quartet).
Demography
The residents of Beit Mery are mainly
Geography
Beit Mery occupies a hill, 700–750 meters (2300' to 2500') above sea level, which gives the town views of the Beirut peninsula and part of Lebanon's Mediterranean coast. It has an area of 5.48 km2 (2 sq. mi.). Since 2000 Beit Mery started to be a suburban town and is 16 km (10 miles) away from Beirut.
History
The Roman rulers of Lebanon made Beit Mery their summer resort due to its high location and summer weather.[4]
Archaeology
There are two
1) Beit Mery I is on the right bank of the
2) Beit Mery II is east of the road from Beit Mery to Deir el Qala'a on a sloping plateau facing the junction of the Nahr Meten and Nahr Jamani. It was found by M. Gautier who recovered Heavy Neolithic flint tools from the surface. V. Hankey also recovered some retouched blades from this area.[5]
But what makes very important Beit Mery -even for tourism- are the scattered ruins of the Roman era, that lasted five centuries plus the two of the byzantine era.[6]
In Beit Mery there it is what’s left of a Roman temple that once matched the grandeur of Baalbek’s temples and Niha’s fortress. A church dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was built over the temple’s remains in the 18th century. You can still see the original stonework in the remaining columns that adorn the square at the church’s entrance. Though it suffered a great deal of damage during the Civil War, the site has since been dutifully restored and maintained for cultural and touristic events. The monastery has proved an ideal locale for concerts, competitions, art exhibitions, conferences, poetry nights, and social gatherings. In town, below the monastery, you will find smaller temples dedicated to various Roman deities, in addition to public Roman baths with their terra cotta pipes. There are also some remains of a Byzantine city that dates back to the 5th and 6th centuries.Lebanon Ministry of Tourism [7]
Tourism
The town has ancient Roman and
Climate
Beit Meri has a
Climate data for Beit Meri | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 12.9 (55.2) |
13.5 (56.3) |
16.0 (60.8) |
20.5 (68.9) |
24.6 (76.3) |
27.6 (81.7) |
29.0 (84.2) |
29.5 (85.1) |
27.2 (81.0) |
24.7 (76.5) |
19.6 (67.3) |
15.3 (59.5) |
21.7 (71.1) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 9.2 (48.6) |
9.7 (49.5) |
11.6 (52.9) |
15.3 (59.5) |
18.9 (66.0) |
21.8 (71.2) |
23.1 (73.6) |
23.6 (74.5) |
21.6 (70.9) |
19.4 (66.9) |
15.0 (59.0) |
11.4 (52.5) |
16.7 (62.1) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 5.6 (42.1) |
5.9 (42.6) |
7.3 (45.1) |
10.2 (50.4) |
13.3 (55.9) |
16.1 (61.0) |
17.3 (63.1) |
17.7 (63.9) |
16.1 (61.0) |
14.2 (57.6) |
10.5 (50.9) |
7.5 (45.5) |
11.8 (53.3) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 251 (9.9) |
215 (8.5) |
171 (6.7) |
80 (3.1) |
31 (1.2) |
1 (0.0) |
1 (0.0) |
1 (0.0) |
7 (0.3) |
43 (1.7) |
121 (4.8) |
198 (7.8) |
1,120 (44) |
Source: Climate-Data.org[9] |
References
- ^ Our Centers Archived February 12, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Al Bustan Festival
- ^ "Hotel Al Bustan - Beirut". Archived from the original on 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
- ^ Beit Mery Archived August 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c Lorraine Copeland; P. Wescombe (1965). Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 75. Imprimerie Catholique. Retrieved 21 July 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Roman Beit Mery video
- ^ Roman remains in Beit Mery
- ^ Beit Mery Archived November 17, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Climate: Beit Meri". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved August 7, 2020.