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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage to Lebanon.

Understand

the Lebanon ratify the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on February 3, 1983. The first protected sites were inscribed in 1984.

the Lebanon has 5 sites registered with World Heritage, cultural.

The country has also submitted 9 sites to the Tentative List, 8 cultural and 1 natural.

Listing

The following sites are listed as World Heritage.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
33.72635.931 Anjar	Cultural	(iii), (iv)	The ruins of Anjar, a city founded by Caliph Walid I at the beginning of the 8th century, reveal a very rigorous organization of space similar to that of the palace cities of Antiquity. They constitute a unique testimony to the town planning of the Umayyads.	UNESCO sheet
34.00736.2052 Baalbek	Cultural	(i), (iv)	This Phoenician city, where the worship of a divine triad was celebrated, was named Heliopolis in the Hellenistic period. It retained its religious function in Roman times when the sanctuary of Jupiter Héliopolitain attracted crowds of pilgrims. With its colossal constructions, Baalbek remains one of the most imposing remains of Imperial Roman architecture at its peak.	UNESCO sheet
34.11935.6483 Byblos	Cultural	(iii), (iv), (vi)	In Byblos we find the successive ruins of one of the oldest cities in Lebanon, inhabited since the Neolithic era and closely linked to the legend and history of the Mediterranean basin for several millennia. Byblos is directly associated with the history of the diffusion of the Phoenician alphabet.	UNESCO sheet
34.24336.0494 Wadi Qadisha or Holy Valley and Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)	Cultural	(iii), (iv)	The Qadisha Valley is one of the most important sites of Christian settlement in the world, and its monasteries, often very old, are set in an extraordinary rugged landscape. Not far from there are the remains of the great cedar forest of Lebanon, very popular in the past for the construction of large religious buildings.	UNESCO sheet
33.27235.1945 Tyr	Cultural	(iii), (vi)	Tire, where, according to legend, the purple was discovered, was the great Phoenician city mistress of the seas, founder of prosperous counters like Cadiz and Carthage. Its historical role declined at the end of the Crusades. It preserves important archaeological remains, mainly from Roman times.	UNESCO sheet
Criteria legend (i) Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. (ii) To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes. (iii) To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization. (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history. (v) Be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea. (vi) To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (vii) Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. (viii) To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth. (ix) To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems. (x) Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.

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