Tripoli

El Mina fish market

The fish Maket in el Mina Tripoli is a daily auction fish market from 6 am till noon. Tripoli busiest fish market has long been a favorite destination for tourists and locals with predawn hours to fill. But the main reason for going is to catch the l... Read More...
Tripoli0 Comments

Cafe Fahim, Tripoli

Cafe Fahim, or Ahwet Fahim is a traditional old café on Tell square, the historical heart of Tripoli, that echoes atmospherically to the clack of backgammon pieces from groups of old men perched on plastic chairs and often ensconced in a cloud of na... Read More...
Tripoli0 Comments

Tripoli Citadel

In 1102, Raymond VI of Saint Gilles, Count of Toulouse, one of the first knights who set out on the First Crusade in 1096, turned his attention to the conquest of Tripoli, the most important emirate on the coast. Raymond wished to establish a princip... Read More...
Tripoli0 Comments

The tower of Lions, el Mina

The Tower of the Lion or Burj el Sbaa was part of a set of seven guard towers built by the Mamluk in the fourteenth – fifteenth centuries to protect the city of Tripoli against the sea.   The Lion Tower ( برج السبع,Burj... Read More...
Tripoli0 Comments

Cafe Al Tall al Oulya, Tripoli

Al Tall Square is a historical place in the heart of Tripoli. Famous for its Ottoman Clock Tower, its public Garden, Nawfal Place, cafe Al Tall AlOulya and many Ottoman and Colonial buildings. The nearby Café Al Tal Al Oulya is a veritable oasis ... Read More...
Tripoli0 Comments

Hammam Ezzedine, Tripoli

"Cleanliness is next to godliness" appears to have been an adage dear to the heart of Emir Izzedin Aibek (1293 -1298). For barely four years after the city of Tripoli had fallen to Qala’un, Emir Ezzedine set about building the new provincial capita... Read More...
Tripoli0 Comments

Hammam al Jadid, Tripoli

Of many known hammams, including the twelve hammams listed by al-Nabulsi in 1700, only five, three Mamluk and two Ottoman, have survived in Tripoli. The first buildings erected by the Mamluks after the founding of the Great Mosque were two hammams: H... Read More...
Tripoli0 Comments