Baalbek was a Phoenician city, probably named after the Phoenician god Baal, in Greek and Roman times it was also known as Heliopolis. Baalbec reached its height during Roman times, when between the 1st and 3rd centuries colossal temples dedicated to Jupiter, Bacchus and other deities were built on site. It is still a mystery how the largest stone blocks known from antiquity, weighing more than thousand tons, were moved to the temple locations.

Baalbec is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture at its apogee.

Byblos is a Mediterranean city in Lebanon, one of the oldest continuosly inhabited cities in human history (since 5000 BC). Many great civilizations left trace in Byblos' history, including Egyptian, Phoenician, Assyrian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Fatimid, Genoese, Mamluk and Ottoman.

Byblos is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Tyre was a major Phoenician seaport from about the 20th century BCE, mentioned in Egyptian records as Egypt's subject in the 14th century BCE. In the 9th century BCE Tyre founded the North African city of Carthage and today's Spain city of Cadiz. Tyre is frequently mentioned in the Bible (Old and New Testaments). In the 8th and 7th centuries BCE Tyre was under Assyrian rule, later besieged without success by Babylon, and then ruled for two centuries by Persia. In 332 BCE Alexander the Great destroyed the city, after a 7 month siege. After that Tyre was ruled by Egypt (the Ptolemaic dynasty), the Roman Empire, Arab Muslim rulers, the Cruseiders, the Mamluks.

The archaeological remains of Tyre are mostly from Roman times, in two separate zones: al-Mina (0:13), which was an island in the past, and al-Bass (2:34), where a necropolis, a triumphal arch, and a hippodrome are located. Tyre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.