Located at the meeting  point of three continents, over  the centuries Lebanon has  been the crossroads of many civilizations whose traces may still be seen today.
Its countryside is a place of  rocks, cedar trees and magnificent ruins that look down from mountains to the sea. "Lubnan" its Arabic name, means "white" the color of the mountains.
 In winter the high peaks are covered with snow and in summer their limestone slopes glimmer white in the distance.

Two rocky ranges traverse Lebanon parallel to the sea coast, separated by the high plateau of the Beqaa valley. On the coast are five famous towns known to every archeologist and school child - Berytus (Beirut), Byblos, Sidon , Tripoli and Tyre -- the names of ancient Phoenicia.