Lebanon
Lebanon packs extraordinary variety into a country smaller than Connecticut: Phoenician ports, Roman temple complexes, Crusader castles, ski slopes and Mediterranean beaches all within a few hours' drive.
Cities & regions
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Baalbek sits in the northern Bekaa Valley about 85-90 km northeast of Beirut, roughly 1.5 to 2 hours by road across the Mount Lebanon range. It holds the lar…
Open guideBeirut is Lebanon's capital and largest city, a compact Mediterranean capital of roughly 20 square kilometres wedged between the sea and the Mount Lebanon ra…
Open guideByblos, called Jbeil by locals, sits on the Mediterranean coast about 40 minutes to an hour north of Beirut and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited c…
Open guideJounieh is a Mediterranean resort city in the Keserwan district about 16-20 km north of Beirut, a 20 to 30 minute drive up the coastal highway, and since 201…
Open guideSidon, known locally as Saida, is Lebanon's third-largest city, sitting on the Mediterranean about 40-45 km south of Beirut, roughly an hour down the coastal…
Open guideTripoli is Lebanon's second-largest city, about 80 km north of Beirut on the Mediterranean coast, and the country's most atmospheric old city by a distance.…
Open guideTyre, known in Arabic as Sour, is Lebanon's southernmost coastal city, roughly 83 km south of Beirut on a peninsula jutting into the Mediterranean. More than…
Open guideZahlé is the capital of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and the country's third-largest city, sitting at around 1,000 metres on the western edge of the valley about a…
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