restaurant
Le Chef, Gemmayzeh
A tiny Gouraud Street diner serving Lebanese home cooking off a blackboard of daily specials, open over fifty years and through the civil war. Rebuilt after the 2020 port blast destroyed it.
1 km · about 5 min drive
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Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon · Asia
About Beirut
Beirut works well as a base: 10 minutes from Jdaidet el Matn, 14km from Jeita Grotto.
Beirut is in Lebanon, with about 1.9 million people. The nearest town is Jdaidet el Matn, about 6 km away.
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Within an hour or so of Beirut: Le Chef, Gemmayzeh (1 km), Tawlet Souk el Tayeb (2 km), Jeita Grotto (14 km), Beiteddine Palace (23 km).
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Beirut is in Beirut, Lebanon, about 6 km from Jdaidet el Matn.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 1,916,100
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Lebanon
- Region
- Beirut
- Timezone
- Asia/Beirut
- Coordinates
- 33.8933, 35.5016
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Worth the detour from Beirut
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
restaurant
Tawlet Souk el Tayeb
A Mar Mikhael kitchen where a different village cook takes over each day, laying out a buffet of her own region's dishes and talking diners through them. Part of the Souk el Tayeb farmers' network.
2 km · about 5 min drive
natural wonder
Jeita Grotto
A spectacular system of two interconnected limestone caves with the world's longest stalactite, explored by foot and underground boat.
14 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Beiteddine Palace
Emir Bashir II's early-19th-century palace in the Chouf, built over thirty years with carved cedar ceilings, inlaid marble and a museum of Byzantine mosaics in the stables. Still the president's official summer residence.
23 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
Byblos (Jbeil)
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world with Phoenician temples, a Crusader castle, and a charming ancient harbor.
29 km · about 35 min drive
castle
Sidon Sea Castle
A 13th-century Crusader fortress built on a small island connected to the Lebanese mainland by a narrow causeway, guarding the ancient port of Sidon.
38 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Batroun
An ancient Phoenician coastal town with a natural sea wall, medieval churches, and a vibrant nightlife scene in a charming old quarter.
43 km · about 50 min drive
waterfall
Baatara Gorge Waterfall
A meltwater cascade drops roughly 90m past three stacked natural limestone bridges into a 240m chasm near Tannourine. The bridges are the reason to come, and the falls only run in spring.
46 km · about 55 min drive
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