Ten kilometers before the
town of hermel is the Mar Maroun Monastery (Saint Maroun), a
rock-cut structure in three levels. It is said to be the
temporary refuge of the successors of Saint Maroun, founder of
the Maronite Christian sect in the fourth century AD. Below
these remains is the Aasi river, the classical Orontes, with
its blue-tinted water.
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