🏛️ City of Tyre

Lebanon · Asia · Cultural · 33.27°N, 35.20°E

Tyre is a city in Lebanon, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was one of the earliest Phoenician metropolises and the legendary birthplace of Europa, her brothers Cadmus and Phoenix, and Carthage's founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984. The historian Ernest Renan described it as "a city of ruins, built out of ruins".

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Quick facts

Country	Lebanon
Continent / region	Asia
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	33.27°N, 35.20°E · view on map

City of Tyre is a cultural World Heritage site in Lebanon, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why City of Tyre was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More sites in Lebanon

Byblos · Ruins of Baalbek (Heliopolis) · Ouadi Qadisha (Holy Valley) · Anjar · Tyre · Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab) · Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli · Mount Amel Castles.

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