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Towering high above the visitor, the ceiling of the Temple of Bacchus

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For the best preserved Roman temples you have to travel to Baalbek. The ruins will impress you in their magnitude, while you can also find delicate decorations in the stones.
Baalbek was founded around 1000BCE, and developed into a Phoenician place of worship for a triad of Gods. Renamed Heliopolis by the Greeks, Baalbek remained a religious centre dedicated to a triad of Gods: Zeus, Aphrodite and Hermes, which was later translated into Jupiter, Venus and Mercury by the Romans. The latter wanted to establish a temple complex surpassing all previous efforts, and, at the height of their power, managed to do so. Interestingly, they used both Greek and Roman construction methods, while adding elements which are not seen in any other Roman temple.
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