Bcheale

Bchaaleh (Arabic: بشعله), alternatively spelled Bcheale, Bchealeh or Bshaaleh, is a village in the Batroun District of the North Governorate in Lebanon.

It is home to traditional houses and to Saint Stephan church, one of the largest in the region of Batroun.

[5] Twelve olive trees still live in the village of Bchaaleh, at more than 1200m above sea level.

[6] Different studies and research present data on the age of the Sisters Olive Trees of Noah in Bchaaleh.

[8] In 2017 Bchaaleh installed a solar farm, and managed to avoid the worst effects of the 2021 Lebanese blackout.

Commemorative plaque given to the village of Bchaaleh on the occasion of the dating of the village's olive trees in 1999