Baalbek is a city and temple complex holding one of the finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed but monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman period, when Baalbek was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire. After the arrival of the Romans in Phoenicia in 64 BC, Phoenician beliefs and the Greco-Roman pantheon were mixed. Pilgrims worshipped here at the sanctuary of Jupiter, Venus and Bacchus, a succession to the triad of Phoenician fer