City Wall and Moat is located in Beirut, Lebanon.
Wall and moat were built atop the Phoenician cemetery, and cut across the ruins of the Phoenico-Persian, Hellenistic and Roman residences.
Souk Al-Jamil was built over the backfilled moat.
In the late 19th century, the city wall and its moat lost their strategic significance.
Located outside the city wall, the moat played an important defensive role in times of war.