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he stables and the Mosaic museum:
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Dar El-Wousta and Dar El-Harim are built
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over beautiful vaulted halls which were
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used as stables for 600 horses and their
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riders as well as for the 500 foot-soldiers.
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These big halls, which are devoted for fine
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arts and which are restored, contain today
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the most beautiful collection of Byzantine
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mosaics. After a Byzantine church was
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discovered at the archaeological site of
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Jiyyeh coastal city, in the south of Beirut,
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the mosaics were transferred to Beiteddine
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palace.