Beirut Trip Overview
Skip the hassle of crowded public transportation of the city and stay focus on your holiday trip. Discover the treasures of Byblos, a coastal beautiful city in North Lebanon, full of history and culture. Taste one of Lebanon’s finest wine in Musar winery. We provide private car transfer with well maintained air conditioned vehicles. Our drivers are professionally trained. Providing safe and comfortable drive is on our top priority.
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Duration: 5 hours
Starts: Beirut, Lebanon
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Skip the hassle of crowded public transportation of the city and stay focus on your holiday trip. Discover the treasures of Byblos, a coastal beautiful city in North Lebanon, full of history and culture. Taste one of Lebanon’s finest wine in Musar winery. We provide private car transfer with well maintained air conditioned vehicles. Our drivers are professionally trained. Providing safe and comfortable drive is on our top priority.
Stop At: Byblos, Byblos, Mount Lebanon Governorate
Byblos, one of the oldest Phoenician cities. Inhabited since Neolithic times, it has been closely linked to the legends and history of the Mediterranean region for thousands of years. Byblos is also directly associated with the history and diffusion of the Phoenician alphabet.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Byblos Castle, Byblos Lebanon
Byblos Castle, a restored 12th-century Crusader castle surrounded by a 10m-wide dry moat is located just inside the Byblos’ atmospheric archaeological site that contains the ruins of the Temple of Baalat Gebal and the Temple of the Obelisks.
It’s an impressive building that offers an excellent perspective over the ruins from the top of its foursquare keep. A series of Bronze Age dwellings is clearly visible below the walls as you look towards the sea. Inside the castle, there’s a small museum and a room with information panels outlining the city’s history.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Old Souk, Byblos Lebanon
Byblos old souk is an old market where tourists can shop for souvenirs and antiques, or simply stroll along the old cobblestone streets and enjoy the architecture.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Byblos Port, Byblos Lebanon
Byblos Port is an ancient port in Byblos and is believed by the Lebanese to be the oldest port in the world. Around 3000 BC, Byblos Port was the most important timber shipping center in the eastern Mediterranean
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Baalat Gebal Temple, 4J9W+J8X, Byblos, Lebanon
The Temple of Baalat Gebal was an important Bronze Age temple structure in the World Heritage Site of Byblos. The temple was dedicated to Ba’alat Gebal, the goddess of the city of Byblos, known later to the Greeks as Atargatis. it was the largest and most important sanctuary in ancient Byblos, and is considered to be “one of the first monumental structures of the Syro-Palestinian region”.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Château Musar, Mzar Street, غزير، Lebanon
Chateau Musar is the name of a Lebanese winery in Ghazir, 24 kilometers north of the capital Beirut. The winery was established by Gaston Hochar in 1930 after returning from Bordeaux. Musar wines contain classic Bordeaux grapes, however they are very different, as they are made in a natural wine style with significant bottle variation. Musar wines generally improve with age, both the red and whites.
Duration: 1 hour