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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.
6 km · about 10 min drive
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Ghazieh
South Governorate, Lebanon · Asia
About Ghazieh
Ghazieh is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Sidon, 53km from Rosh HaNikra Grottoes.
Ghazieh is in South Governorate, Lebanon, with about 50,000 people. The nearest town is Sidon, about 4 km away.
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What is there to see near Ghazieh?
Within an hour or so of Ghazieh: Sidon Sea Castle (6 km), Beiteddine Palace (28 km), Tyre (Sour) (31 km), Le Chef, Gemmayzeh (44 km).
Where is Ghazieh?
Ghazieh is in South Governorate, Lebanon, about 4 km from Sidon.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 50,000
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Lebanon
- Region
- South Governorate
- Timezone
- Asia/Beirut
- Coordinates
- 33.5175, 35.3689
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Worth the detour from Ghazieh
7 notable places within an hour's 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.
28 km · about 30 min drive
ancient ruins
Tyre (Sour)
A UNESCO-listed ancient Phoenician port city with one of the best-preserved Roman hippodromes in the world and extensive archaeological remains.
31 km · about 35 min drive
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.
44 km · about 50 min 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.
45 km · about 50 min drive
natural wonder
Rosh HaNikra Grottoes
Sea-carved tunnels running 200m through white chalk cliffs on the Lebanese border, reached by a cable car advertised as the world's steepest at a 60-degree gradient. The water inside glows electric blue.
53 km · about 60 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.
54 km · about 60 min drive
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- 78 kmMount ArbelA cliff dropping 380m to the Sea of Galilee, with fortified caves cut into its face by Jewish rebels and a lookout taking in the whole lake to the Golan. Israel's only base-jumping mountain.
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