The Piazza Grande, the highest point in town, is the site of the graceful town well decorated with griffins and lions.
The Piazza Grande is the highest point in town, and is decorated with lions.
Around a.d. 141, the three Maccabee brothers overthrew the Seleucids and established their own Hasmonean dynasty and an extensive empire which dominated Palestine as far as the Golan in the north and Gaza in the south.