Princes Yalla's Villa SILIN (LEPTIS MAGNA) (Al-Khoms)

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A very ancint villa , belongs to a roman princes called "yala",
a fantastic and wonderfull to visit, spirtual and magical place facing the mediterranian, see the photos on www.flickr.com/photos/82822788@N00/713993533/.
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SILIN (LEPTIS MAGNA) LIBYA
The villas of Silin are part of a group of seaside residences built on the coast by the rich ship owners of Leptis Magna. At the beginning of the second cent. A.D., the Roman rulers, trying to make a better harbor, succeeded only in silting it up. Thus the Leptitans were forced to abandon their town and look around the coast to find better mooring sites. As the Phoenicians always did, they were looking for places where their boats could stay alee from the winds and as the coast was endowed by high and rocky promontories with at both their sides “marse”, (arab word for sandy beaches) here was the ideal site to set there their maritime commerces. The sea was low but also fully charged their flat and large “oneraria” ships would never draw more than one or, at the most, for the larger boats a meter and half