Sehenswürdigkeiten in Lebanon

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Moukhtara

Moukhtara (Arabic: المختارة‎) is a small town in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. The town's inhabitants are divided between Druze and Christians. It is the hometown of Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party.

Mudeirej Bridge

The Mudeirej Bridge or Mdairej Bridge is a bridge in Lebanon. It was completed in 1998 as the tallest and highest bridge in Lebanon and the Middle East but this has since been surpassed.

Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Antelias

The Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Antelias (informally Antelias of the Maronites) (in Latin: Archieparchia Anteliensis Maronitarum) is a Maronite (Antiochian Rite, Arabic), non-Metropolitan Archeparchy (Eastern Catholic Archdiocese) in northern Lebanon.It is immediately dependent on the Maronite…

Holy See of Cilicia

The Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia (Armenian: Կաթողիկոսութիւն Հայոց Մեծի Տանն Կիլիկիոյ) is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church. Since 1930, the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia has been headquartered in Antelias, Lebanon.

Hope for Peace

The Hope for Peace (Espoir de Paix) Monument is a monument in Yarze, Lebanon, made to celebrate the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990. It was designed by the French-born American artist Armand Fernandez. It is located near the Ministry of National Defence. It was built in 1995.

Baabda Palace

Baabda Palace (or Presidential Palace, French: Palais présidentiel de Baabda, Arabic: قصر بعبدا‎), also known as Qantari Palace, is the official residence of the President of Lebanon.

Crater

On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, and leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.

Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut

The Archaeology Museum of the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon is the third oldest museum in the Near East after Cairo and Constantinople.

Al Majidieh

Al-Majidiyyeh Mosque (Arabic: جامع المجيدية‎) is a mosque located in Beirut, Lebanon.Originally a fort, the building was converted into a mosque in the mid-19th century and named after Sultan Abdul Majid. Damaged during the Lebanese Civil War, the mosque was restored in 2004.

Sursock Museum

The Sursock Museum (Arabic: قصر سرسق‎), which is officially known as the Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum, is a modern art and contemporary art museum in Beirut, Lebanon.In 1912, the wealthy and prominent Lebanese aristocrat Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock built the private villa that now houses the…

law school of Berytus

The law school of Berytus (also known as the law school of Beirut and the Berytian school of Roman law) was a center for the study of Roman law in classical antiquity located in Berytus (modern-day Beirut, Lebanon).

Berytus

Berytus (; Phoenician: 𐤁𐤉𐤓𐤅𐤕𐤀, romanized: Biruta; Ancient Greek: Βηρυτός, romanized: Bērytós; Latin: Bērȳtus), briefly known as Laodicea in Phoenicia (Ancient Greek: Λαοδίκεια ἡ ἐν Φοινίκῃ) or Laodicea in Canaan from the 2nd century to 64 BCE, was t…

Government Serail

The Grand Serail (Arabic: السراي الكبير‎, al-Sarāy al-Kabir; French: Le Grand Serail; also known as the Government Palace) is the headquarters of the Prime Minister of Lebanon. It is situated atop a hill in downtown Beirut a few blocks away from the Lebanese Parliament building.

Muhammad al-Amin Mosque

The Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque (Arabic: جامع محمد الأمين‎), also referred to as the Blue Mosque, is a Sunni Muslim mosque located in downtown Beirut, Lebanon.In the 19th century, a Zawiya (prayer corner) was built on this site.

St George Maronite Cathedral

Saint George Maronite Cathedral (Arabic: كاتدرائية مار جرجس للموارنة‎) is the cathedral of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut, Archdiocese of the city of Beirut, Lebanon.

Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut

Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut (in Latin: Archeparchia Berytensis Maronitarum) is an archeparchial seat of the Maronite Church immediately subject to the Holy See in Lebanon. As of 2012, there were 232,000 baptized.

Robert Mouawad Private Museum

The Robert Mouawad Private Museum (Arabic: متحف روبير معوض الخاص‎) is a private residence in Beirut's Zokak el-Blat quarter that was turned into a museum by the Lebanese businessman Robert Mouawad.

René Moawad Garden

The René Moawad Garden (French: Jardin René Moawad) known by the public as the Sanayeh Garden is located in the Sanayeh district of Beirut, Lebanon. The garden is one of the oldest public open-air spaces in the capital.

Old Damascus

The Ancient City of Damascus (Arabic: دِمَشْق ٱلْقَدِيمَة‎, romanized: Dimašq al-Qadīmah) is the historic city centre of Damascus, Syria.

Omayyad Mosque

The Umayyad Mosque (Arabic: الجامع الأموي‎, romanized: al-Jāmiʿ al-Umawī), also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of Damascus, is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world.

Palm Islands Nature Reserve

The Palm Islands Nature Reserve consists of three flat, rocky islands of eroded limestone and the surrounding sea area, located 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) offshore and northwest of the city of Mina El Mina, Lebanon, to the west of Tripoli, Lebanon.

Anjar

Anjar (meaning "unresolved or running river"; Arabic: عنجر‎ / ALA-LC: ‘Anjar; also known as Hosh Mousa (Arabic: حوش موسى‎ / Ḥawsh Mūsá), is a town of Lebanon located in the Bekaa Valley. The population is 2,400, consisting almost entirely of Armenians.

Sidon

Sidon, known locally as Sayda or Saida (Arabic: صيدا‎), is the sixth-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate, of which it is the capital, on the Mediterranean coast.

Temple of Eshmoun

The Temple of Eshmun (Arabic: معبد أشمون‎) is an ancient place of worship dedicated to Eshmun, the Phoenician god of healing. It is located near the Awali river, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northeast of Sidon in southwestern Lebanon.

Aammiq Wetland

The Aammiq Wetland (the name is also sometimes transliterated as "Ammiq"or "Aamiq") is the largest remaining freshwater wetland in Lebanon, a remnant of much more extensive marshes and lakes that once existed in the Bekaa Valley.

Byblos

Byblos (Arabic: جبيل‎ Jubayl, also spelled Jubayl, or Jebeil,locally Jbeil; Greek: Βύβλος; Phoenician: 𐤂𐤁𐤋 (GBL), (probably Gubla)) is a city in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon.

Chouf District

Chouf (also spelled Shouf, Shuf or Chuf, in Arabic: جبل الشوف‎ Jabal ash-Shouf; French: La Montagne du Chouf) is a historic region of Lebanon, as well as an administrative district in the governorate (muhafazat) of Mount Lebanon.Located south-east of Beirut, the region comprises a narrow c…

Commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb

The commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb are a group of over 20 inscriptions and rock reliefs carved into the limestone rocks around the estuary of the Nahr al-Kalb (Dog River) in Lebanon, just north of Beirut.

Barouk

Barouk (Arabic: باروك‎) is a village in the Chouf District of Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon. Barouk is located 52 kilometers southeast of Beirut. Its average elevation is 1000 to 1200 meters above sea level and its total land area consists of 2,762 hectares.

ghazir church

Ghazir (Arabic: غزير‎) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. It is located 27 kilometres (17 mi) north of Beirut. It has an average elevation of 380 meters above sea level and a total land area of 542 hectares (2.09 sq mi).

St George Greek Orthodox Cathedral

Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral (consecrated 1764, Arabic: كاتدرائية القديس جاورجيوس للروم الارثوذكس‎) is the seat of the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan bishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut and its dependencies.

Tyre Coast Nature Reserve

Tyre Coast Nature Reserve to the southeast of Tyre, Lebanon covers over 380 hectares (940 acres) and is divided into three zones: the tourism zone (public beaches, the old city and Souks, the ancient port), the agricultural and archaeological zone, and the Conservation zone that includes the Phoenic…