Entrance to Caesarea Philippi
Entrance to Caesarea Philippi Cæsarea Philippi, Bâniâs. This ancient city occupies one of the most picturesque sites in Syria. It is about three and a half miles from Dan. This was anciently the old Greek city of Panium, which Herod the Great rebuilt and renamed Cæsarea Philippi. In the picture we are looking northward. We enter the old city through a gateway beyond a narrow single-arched bridge. “Two sublime ravines cut deeply into the ridge, having between them an isolated cone more than 1000 feet in height crowned by the ruins of Subeibeh. On the terrace at the base of this cone lie the ruins of Cæsarea Philippi. The terrace itself is covered with oak and olive trees, having green glades and clumps of hawthorn, acacia and myrtle here and there, all alive with streams of water and cascades.” The main attraction of Bâniâs is the great fountain, the “upper source” of the Jordan, bursting from the mouth of a cave, sweeping down a rocky bed, scattering its spray over thickets of...
