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In the footsteps of St. Simeon The Stylite

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Prestige issue 127-128, Dec-Jan. 2003-2004
At 32 kms from Aleppo. A mountain. A place of pilgrimage. Qal’at Simaan, the citadel of Simeon. The saint lived there 42 years on a pillar. He was called the Stylite. His asceticism fascinated. His faith was mobilizing crowds. When he died, people wanted to make the richest tribute to the man who had made a vow of poverty. Around this pillar was built a large church.
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Lebanese Wine

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Prestige issue 256, November 2014
The Phoenicians exported already, for over 4000 years their jars of wine and developed vineyards and wine cellars. Later, in Roman times in the middle of the second century BC, a temple was dedicated to Bacchus, the god of wine, in the region of Baalbeck. It was in the Bekaa Valley that viticulture has developed first. The monks used to produce wine for religious purposes. Today, the culture of vineyards conquered several areas including Mount
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Il Sereno Hotel

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Freshly opened on the waterfront of the legendary Como Lake, in Italy, the luxury hotel Il Sereno, affiliated to the international chain Sereno Hotel Group labeled Leading Hotels of the World, is a dream destination.
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DivingLifestyle

Saidoun The Sunken City

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Prestige issue 118, March 2003
Once there was Saidoun, a lost city island, which disappeared into the depths of the sea, an island that created so many legends and raised envy; we end up believing that only it existed in the imagination of Phoenician and Greek historians, until ... when a diver discovered quite by chance, one kilometer off Sidon, the remains of a city.
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Lebanese Polish Cultural relations

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Prestige issue 254, September 2014
The Lebanese Polish relations date back in time. Their history dates back to the XIIIth century when pilgrims were traveling to the holy places and at the same time visiting Lebanon. Following the partition of Poland in the late XIIIth century, many Poles fled their country, many chose Lebanon to stay. However the wave
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DivingLifestyle

The Ghost ship of Batroun

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Prestige issue 117, February 2003
The sea jealously guards its secrets, but sometimes it consents to unveil a mystery. These boats buried there are not only wrecks, each carries a story, a drama. Old fishermen are their guards who took out of the sea lessons of life, who have drawn their wisdom there. Of the wreck we explored, we know one thing: a ship carrying
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The Pantheon

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Prestige issue 257-258, Dec. 2014-Jan.2015
Part of the Historic Centre of Rome, the Pantheon, located at Piazza della Rotonda, was originally a religious building dedicated to all the gods of antiquity, especially to Mars and Venus. Built on the orders of Agrippa in the year 27 BC., whose name is engraved on the entrance portico, it was completely destroyed by two fires in the years 80 and 110 and
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