title: Kaitouly
text: # Kaitouly
  
  Kaitouly (also, Kaitouli, Qaytouli. Arabic:" قيتولي" مصيف الآلهة which means "gods residence" in the Syriac language is a village in the Jezzine District of South Governorate in Lebanon. Kaitouly is about 72km from the capital Beirut.
  
  ## Monuments
  
  Monuments in Kaitouly include Mar Mikhael (Saint Michael) ancient church (built around 1811), heritage houses, an old press, ruins of an old press, and that of old mills.
  
  ## Natural attractions
  
  A visitor to the area can find human traces in the nature such as coal quarries and mines, and purely natural spots including the Mar Gergess (Saint George) spring, the Al-Houwwa (Arabic for pit) in the area of Dahr Al-Makla'a, and the pine woods dispersed around the village.
  
  ## Notable figures
  
  The Lebanese Poet Ounsi el-Hajj was born in Kaitouly
  
  ## Developmental projects
  
  Of the developmental projects that are helping Kaitouly:
  
  * The UNDP GEF Carob Project
  * The Baladi Program chocolate production workshop funded by the USAID
  
  ## Geology
  
  From a geological point of view, the land of Kaitouly is principally made of sediments that originate from the event of the formation of the Mount Lebanon where parts of the crust was raised from below the Mediterranean Sea to elevations reaching 3,088 m at the Qurnat as Sawda'.
  
  * Sedementary rocks found in Kaitouly and containing fossiled marine creatures
  * A close-up view of sedementary rock above showing remais of seashells
  