South Governorate, Lebanon · Asia
Sidon is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Ghazieh, 49km from Jeita Grotto.
Sidon is in South Governorate, Lebanon, with about 160,000 people. The nearest town is Ghazieh, about 4 km away.
Sidon ( SY-dən), or Saida ( SY-də, SAH-id-ə; Arabic: صيدا, romanized: Ṣaydā), is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located on the Mediterranean coast in the South Governorate, of which it is the capital. Tyre, to the south, and the Lebanese capital of Beirut, to the north, are each about 40 kilometres (25Read more
miles) away. Sidon has a population of about 80,000 within the city limits, while its metropolitan area has more than a quarter-million inhabitants.
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Within an hour or so of Sidon: Beiteddine Palace (25 km), Tyre (Sour) (36 km), Le Chef, Gemmayzeh (40 km), Tawlet Souk el Tayeb (40 km).
Sidon is in South Governorate, Lebanon, about 4 km from Ghazieh.
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6 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
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.
25 km · about 30 min drive
ancient ruins
A UNESCO-listed ancient Phoenician port city with one of the best-preserved Roman hippodromes in the world and extensive archaeological remains.
36 km · about 40 min drive
restaurant
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.
40 km · about 45 min drive
restaurant
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.
40 km · about 45 min drive
natural wonder
A spectacular system of two interconnected limestone caves with the world's longest stalactite, explored by foot and underground boat.
49 km · about 55 min drive
natural wonder
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.
57 km · about 65 min drive
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