Batroun House,traditional Architecture, Lebanon Stock Photo

Batroun house,traditional architecture, Lebanon. Many old houses and sandy-vault buildings were rehabilitated into old style restaurants and unique styles of night clubs and pubs. The Lebanese house is usually a stone building with a large arch framing a vaulted ceiling on the ground floor, three arches centered over a narrow balconey on the upper floor, all topped by a steep, red-tiled roof; this exterior format was adapted from the villas of Venice sometime in the middle of the 19th century.