4 nights from £670
It is easy to forget that the Greek and Roman worlds extended to the shores of North Africa, originally the domain of the Phoenicians, the Romans having conquered the region in
146BC appointing a Proconsul to oversee its development. Until comparatively recently a visit to Libya was fraught with difficulties and the ruins of once thriving and civilised cities such as Leptis Magna and Sabratha were not exposed to the same level of tourism and commercialisation as other parts of the Roman world, indeed had lain undisturbed for centuries. At Leptis Magna lies the largest Roman bath complex outside
Rome, a partially excavated circus and theatre with much of its ornamentation and statuary intact. In Libya’s capital Tripoli, discover a thriving ancient walled medina and the Libyan
National Museum, whose exhibits have been compared favourably with those at the British Museum.
