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The Glossary
Bcharre Travel Guide
Like the intoxicating effect of the famous arak, the town famously known as the birthplace of Khalil Gibran, is extremely beautiful at first sight. Bcharré's façade is a montage of an evergreen forest of cedars and a snow-capped mountain that, after gently sloping for some distance, towers above the cliffs of Qadisha Valley. This Maronite town provides some of the most dramatic scenery in the whole Lebanon and is the perfect place to stop on the way from the demure and down-to earth Tripoli to the Sun-City of Baalbek.
The road leading to Bcharre offers some of the most ravishing mountain landscape in Lebanon where spectacular gorges and peaks rise amid the villages of red-tile roofed houses perched at the top of the hills or clinging precariously to the mountainsides as well as olive groves, vineyards and valleys that rise higher and higher at every turn.
A tour is possible through the villages around the horseshoe-shaped rim of Qadisha. The Hadeth Al-Jubbeh is the first village on the south of Bcharre which dates back to around the 6th century A.D. while Diman, the residence of the Maronite Patriach, is a 19th century village that overlooks the Monastery of Qannoubin which is the seat of the Maronite Patriarchy. A steep path will lead to Hasroun, a pastoral but picturesque village dotted with old churches and verdant gardens.
The "must see" sights, however, are the museum of Khalil Gibran (nestled inside the town) and the Cedar Reserve, located a few kilometers up the mountain of Jebel Makhal in Edhen. North of the Cedar Reserve lies the Cedar Ski Area, the oldest ski district in Lebanon that boasts of a challenging terrain. It is not quite developed but this will thrill the ski buffs out there.
The serenity of the town was shaken during the advent of the civil war when Bcharré became a bastion of Christian resistance against the Syrians. Today, however, the town has managed to bring back its equilibrium and is now a frequented tourist zone.
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