Anjar

Umayyad ambition built Anjar from scratch in the early 8th century, when Caliph Walid I laid out a walled city in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley on a strict grid crossed by two colonnaded avenues — an Islamic city planned with Roman discipline. Abandoned within decades as the dynasty fell, it was never built over, leaving a uniquely clear plan of palaces, baths and hundreds of shops. UNESCO inscribed Anjar in 1984 as singular evidence of Umayyad town planning.