Smar Jbeil Castle
The Smar Jbeil castle was built in the center of the village, on a hill showing the entire neighborhood. While it may rest on pre-Roman foundations, its existing structure dates to the period of the Crusades, when the area was part of the County of Tripoli.
The Castle had a main tower controlling the coast between Jbeil and Batrun. In his book Tarikh al-Azminah, the Patriarch Estephan El Douaihy (1670–1704) explains how the main castle tower was demolished:
Sunday, November 25th 1630, at 3:00AM a huge earthquake hit the castle and demolished the center tower from its four corners. It demolished also all what was in the lower basement.
The castle has many wells built in the rocks. It has also many tunnels connecting the castle to the neighboring valleys.
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