Lebanon (لبنان)

Cities, towns, and villages

• Beirut (بيروت) — the cosmopolitan capital city, and largest city in the country, with a mash-up of all the country’s religious sects, as well as historic Franco-Mediterranean architecture, serving as a major luxury shopping centre, a free press, and possessing the liveliest nightlife scene in the Arab world.
• Baalbek (بعلبك) — a Phoenician and Roman archaeological site, including the biggest temple in the Roman Empire.
• Byblos (Jbeil/جبَيل) — It is one of the oldest continually-inhabited cities in the world, believed to have been first occupied between 8800 and 7000 BC, is an ancient Phoenician city that had been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its touristic attractions include a medieval castle and a Roman amphitheater, as well as many seaside cafes and restaurants serving fresh seafood.
• Jounieh (جونيه) — is a city in Lebanon. It is closely associated with Beirut, the capital. Jounieh is located 16 km to the north of Beirut. known for its seaside resorts and nightclubs.
• Sidon (Saida/صيدا) — The third-largest city in the country. The city is known for its beautiful view of the Mediterranean, as well as being home to a lot of historic Crusader and Ottoman architecture, including the “Khan al-Franj” (“Caravanserai of the French”) caravanserai (Ottoman guest house). It is also home to plenty of other medieval remains, as well as a fascinating museum about the local soap industry here and the art of Levantine soapmaking.
• Tripoli (Trablus/طرابلس) — the second-largest city in the country and the ‘capital of the North’, this port city was heavily built by the Islamic Mamluk dynasty, holding the second highest amount of Mamluk architecture after Cairo, giving the city a ‘medieval Islamic feel’. It is also home to the major Crusader site of “Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles”. The city was deeply scarred and almost completely destroyed by the Lebanese Civil War, and as such the city has never really recovered, it is nowadays extremely impoverished, with architecture that is severely crumbling and destroyed from the war. However, it is also unspoilt by mass-tourism.
• Tyre (Sour/صور) — a medium-sized, ancient city, famed for its strong Phoenician heritage, with many Phoenician sites and a rich history of being a Phoenician cultural centre. The city is also famed for its beautiful coastline, with wide expanses of sandy beaches that saw a mass-scale construction boom of luxury resorts during the “Golden Age” years of the 1960s and early-1970s. It is home to many ancient Roman and Phoenician sites, including its Roman Hippodrome which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Zahlé (زَحْلة) — is a city in eastern Lebanon, and the capital and largest city of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon. it is the third-largest city in Lebanon after Beirut and Tripoli and the fourth-largest taking the whole urban area (the Jounieh urban area is larger). Zahlé is located 55 km (34 mi) east of the capital Beirut, close to the Beirut-Damascus road, and lies at the junction of Mount Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley, at a mean elevation of 1,000 m. Zahlé is known as the "Bride of the Beqaa" and "the Neighbor of the Gorge" for its geographical location and attractiveness, It is famous throughout Lebanon and the region for its pleasant climate, numerous riverside restaurants. Its inhabitants are predominantly Melkite Greek Catholic and are known in Arabic as Zahlawi.
• Jezzine (Jizzin/جزين) — is a town located 22 km (14 mi) from Sidon and 40 km (25 mi) south of Beirut. Surrounded by mountain peaks, pine forests, and at an average altitude of 950 m (3,117 ft), it is the main summer resort and tourist destination of South Lebanon. The town is also famous in Lebanon for its production of handmade, traditional cutlery and daggers with decorative inlays as well as the shrine of Our Lady of the Waterfall.
• Jeita (جعيتا) — is a town and municipality located in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is well known for the Jeita Grotto which is a popular tourist attraction, as well as the Nahr al-Kalb, a river that runs from a spring near the grotto emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. The name Jeita is derived from the Aramaic word Ge’itta, meaning "roar" or "noise".
• Deir al Qamar (دير القمر) — is known for its very beautiful houses with red roofs. It's a a hill town with many beautiful landscapes and views. Deir el Qamar is known as the City of Emirs and is considered the most beautiful town in Lebanon. The town served as the capital city of the country for 300 years in the past and contains with Beit el Dine the three most beautiful palaces of Lebanon. Deir al Qamar is hometown of many historical figures rulers of Lebanon in the past.
• Anjar (عنجر) — is a city near the Syrian border. in the Beqaa Valley. with many local restaurants where you can enjoy the unique Lebanese cuisine. The city is home to the unique ruins of an 8th-century Umayyad city. it is an example of an inland commercial centre, at the crossroads of two important routes: one leading from Beirut to Damascus and the other crossing the Bekaa and leading from Homs to Tiberiade. the ruins of the Umayyad settlement of Anjar have been recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.