... On the road of kings and emperors ... The Lebanese shore, which has heard the neighing of horses and the cries of the conquerors of every nation and every land, who came to break themselves upon its age-old rocks... There lies a marvelously beautiful shore. It is the famous bay of Jounieh, of which it has been said: "the most beautiful bay in the world."

It is overhung by the green summits of the Kesrouan... and the "Virgin of Harissa" stretches out her hand to bless it... between her and the mountain there is the distance of a cubit... It curves in an arc, of harmonious lines, over a distance of more than two kilometers.

Blue upon blue... the vast sea... the sky so blue... the red sand of the beach... and above all this, the green of the Lebanese mountain... and the distant echoes of the bells ringing the Angelus on the hilltops, in the beautiful Lebanese evenings.

Six columns... of that great history.