Antique vestige

The Libyan coasts host one of the beautiful antique vestiges antique vestiges in the world, these vestiges are found in the western and eastern regions of this coats, in the western region the history of the vestiges are referred back to the Phoenician era during which the cities of Sebratha, Oea and Leptis were founded, however they are the Romans who built these cities that became one of the prosperous and beautiful cities at that time and let to the country this rich archeological heritage.

 In the eastern region we find the five antique Greek famous cities: Shahat (Gorina), Sussa (Apolonia), Tolmitha (Ptolemias), Tukra (Tokhira) and Elmerj (Barqa). The beauty of these cities is reinforced by their splendid position in the green mountains regions having an attractive nature, furthermore the region has a number of other archeological landmarks that inhibit the concern of tourists such as the beautiful Byzantine mosaics existing in Libya castle that is considered a main tourist attraction site of an international importance class as well as the Libyan temple situated in Saltana dated back to pre-Islamic era. There are also some Roman ruins isolated to the south of Tripoli in the western mountain region, for example the vestiges in the desert are situated 200 kms to the east-south of Tripoli in Guerza region where we find the Roman fortified farms, the cemeteries and the splendid tombs of particular importance.

 And due to the international aspect of the archeological cities situated in the Libyan coast, many of them have been declared as sites for the world human heritage (Shahat - Leptis - Sebratha).