Kaitouly (also, Kaitouli, Qaytouli. Arabic:" قيتولي" مصيف الآلهة) is a village in the Jezzine District of South Governorate in Lebanon. Kaitouly is about 72 km from the capital Beirut.
| Kaitouly | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | South Governorate |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Jezzine District |
| Pushpin Map: | Lebanon |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Lebanon |
| Coordinates: | 33.5375°N 35.5519°W |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
| Elevation M: | 950 |
| Blank Info Sec1: | 72 km |
Kaitouly come from a Syriac word which means "Gods residence".[2]
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.[3]
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.[4]
Of the developmental projects that are helping Kaitouly:
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'.