Touristic Sites in Lebanon
Byblos is one of the top contenders "oldest continuously inhabited city" award. According to Phoenician tradition, the god El founded it. Today Byblos (Jbeil in arabic) on the coast 37 Km north of Beirut is a prosperous place with glass-fronted office buildings and crowded streets. Nearby are the extensive excavations that make Byblos one of the most important archeological sites in the area...read more
Beiteddine palace complex, Lebanon's best example of early 19th Lebanese architecture, was built over a thirty year period Emir Bechir El Chehab II, who ruled Mount Lebanon for more than half a century...read more
Known as the capital of the north, Tripoli, 25 Km north of Beirut. forty five buildings in the city, many dated from the 14th century, have been registered as historical sites. twelve mosques from Mamluke and Ottomane times have survived along. Secular buildings include the hammam or bathing house, which followed the classical pattern of Roman Byzantine baths and the Khan or caravansary ...read more
Baalbeck, Lebanon's greatest Roman treasures can be counted among the wonders of the ancient world. the largest most noble Roman temples ever built. Towering high above the Bekaa plain, their monumental proportions proclamed the power and wealth of Imperial Rome. Baalbeck, 85 Km from Beirut, is an important administrative and economic center in the northern Bekaa Valley.....read more
Simply known as "the Cedars", this resort settlement in Lebanon's highest range is one of the most dramatically beautiful spots in the country. Its centerpiece is an ancient grove of Cedars, a tree synonymous for millennia. The cedars is the town of bsharre, birth place Gibran Khalil Gibran. The Cedars is a resort for all seasons...read more
Sidon, on the coast 48 Km south of Beirut, is one of the famous names in ancient history. But of all Lebanon's cities, this is the most mysterious, for its past has been tragically scattered and plundered. Sidon is a busy commercial center with the pleasant conservative atmosphere of a small town....read more
Situated on the Beqaa plain, Aanjar is the site of the only Umayyad city in Lebanon. It was built from 705 to 715 and many well conserved ruins still remain....read more
Situated in the Shouf, Deir El Qamar is one of Lebanon’s best-preserved towns. With its impressive traditional architecture displayed in the numerous palaces and monuments across the area, it is considered as one of the country’s historical heritages....read more
From here, Princess Elissa fled to found the city of Carthage and cedar trees were offered for building Solomon’s temple, while Alexander the Great dived to a clear harbor and took the reins...read more
Founded in the 18th century, Zahle, the village with red tiled roofs, was erected on the shores of “al Bardawni” river. Nowadays, restaurants, coffee-rooms and old houses flourish on each riverbank....read more
In north Lebanon, the “Holy Valley” spreads from Bcharreh to the coast. Classified under UNESCO's world heritage, its countless caves, chapels and monasteries as well as its luxuriant vegetation transformed it into the most famous natural site of Lebanon....read more
Outstanding and mysterious, shady and giving, Beirut is a city which provides and conceals simultaneously. Bursting with sunshine, Beirut is brimming over with life. From the sea cornice to streets swarming with people, the effervescence is constant....read more
