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First trip

QASR LIBIA
AL BAYDA
APOLLONIA
TEMPLE OF ZEUS
CYRENE
GEIGAB
SLONTAH
TOCRA
BENGHAZI

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Second trip

 
TRIPOLI
VILLA SELINE
AMPITHEATRE

KHUMS
LEPTIS MAGNA
ZLITEN

MISRATA

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Third trip

 
TRIPOLI

SUBRATHA

 

Fourth trip

 
AL MARJ
TOBRUK
THE WAR GRAVES
AL BIRDI
WAR BUNKER
DERNA
JEBAL AKDAR
BENGHAZI

 

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BREGA 
 

Eastern Libya, Home to Roman and Greek Ruins and Ancient Monuments

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This is the Casa Libia Page Of Libya Travels

Qasr Libia, or Casa Libia or Qasr Libia is about 1150 km east of Tripoli, the capital of Libya. Place names, their spelling and pronunciation are never simple in Libya, well nothing is simple in Libya actually. We started off from the Oil refinery in Brega at 9 o'clock on Saturday morning and took the company bus on a three-hour journey to Benghazi where our driver met us. We drove towards Qasr Libia. The rural land and large farms in this area have rich red soil, reminiscent of the Alantaju area of Portugal. The animals look healthy with sleek  tagged cattle grazing: unusual I thought in Africa. We stopped briefly to chat with a farmer who was showing his son how to mend fences.
A Libyan Farmer Near The Basilica At Qasa Libia
 

Qasr Libia in its most recent manifestation is now a museum but in the past it had been a Turkish fort built during the Ottoman period in Libya. It had also been used by the Italian military during the Italian occupation. Originally it was a pair of basilicas, part of a Christian settlement built around 540 AD during the Byzantine period.
 
Mosaics At Casa Libia
 
The interior of the fort and its outbuildings contain ancient mosaics. The Mosaics are in excellent condition and show scenes from daily life, history and mythology. Fish, fowl, vegetables, hunting and fishing scenes are all represented as is a mosaic of Alexander's Pharaoh's Lighthouse, the only known representation of the lighthouse in existence
Byzantine Mosaics At Qasir Libia

Roman Mosaics At Qasa LibiaByzantine Mosaics At Qasr Libia

Orpheus is also represented and there is also a satyr indicating remnants of paganism at the time. One mosaic shows monument dedicated to the freedom fighters who drove the Italian occupiers out of Libya in the twentieth century. We left in the late afternoon passing through Al Bayda on our way to Appolonia

 

Brega, Libya, North Africa.

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Qasr Libia, Featuring A Byzantine Basilica With Mosaics Is About 1150 km East Of Tripoli, The Capital Of Libya