LEBANON

LEBANON / لُبْنَان

Landscapes.
Pigeons' Rocks, Beirut.
Second stamp in a set of 5, issued on 29.07.1966.
Face value: 1 Lebanese piastre.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 34 x 27 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 947.
- Scott No. 444,
- StampWorld No. 945.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 919.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 260.

Pigeons Rocks or Raouché Rocks (Arabic: صخرة الروشة‎; French: Grotte aux Pigeons or Rochers de Raouché) is a natural site consisting of two giant limestone islets in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Beirut Corniche, which become a tourist attraction. Some geologists suppose that this rock appeared as a result of several strong earthquakes that hit the area in the 13th century, and destroyed several islands inhabited at that time; erosion has then set them to what they currently look like.