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🏛️ Caesarea Paneas

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🏛️ Caesarea Paneas
Hellenistic and Roman settlement in northern Israel


🕐 3 min read · Updated 10 Apr 2026 at 16:35
📌 Fast Facts
  • Location: Banias Nature Reserve, Golan Heights, northern Israel
  • Founded: Hellenistic period as Paneas; renamed Caesarea Philippi under Herod Philip II, 1st century CE
  • Key remains: Roman temple platform, votive niches, Pan Grotto, bathhouse structures
  • Notable feature: Sacred spring and grotto dedicated to Pan in cliff face

Caesarea Paneas is an archaeological site in the Banias Nature Reserve in the Golan Heights that developed around ...

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