🏨 Half-Day Tour to Beit El Din and Sidon Activity

Half-Day Tour to Beit El Din and Sidon

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From $75.00

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 5 hours

Departs: Beirut, Beirut

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Skip the hassle of driving and public transportation on this half-day tour from Beirut, and recognize the Italian-designed palace at Beiteddine in the countryside region of Chouf. Then head south to Sidon city, and explore the main attractions including the crusader sea castle, museums, palaces, khans and a small walk in the old souk.

What's Included

Air-conditioned vehicle

English Speaking Driver

Hotel Pick up & Drop off

Private transportation

What's Not Included

Entrance fees to the sites

Lunch

Traveler Information

ADULT: Age: 6 - 99

Additional Info

Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Specialized infant seats are available

Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Specialized infant seats are available

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Beiteddine Palace or ‘House of Faith’ is a 19th-century palace in Beiteddine, Lebanon. It hosts the annual Beiteddine Festival and the Beiteddine Palace Museum.
Emir Bashir Chehab II, who later became the ruler of the Mount Lebanon Emirate, built the palace between 1788 and 1818. After 1840, the palace was used by the Ottomans as a government building. During the French Mandate it served as a local administrative office.
In 1943, the palace was declared the president's official summer residence. During the Lebanese Civil War it was heavily damaged. Parts of the palace are today open to the public while the rest is still the president's summer residence.

1 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included

Sidon

Sidon, one of the oldest Phoenician cities, was founded in the 3rd millennium BC and became prosperous in the 2nd. Sidon was famous for its purple dyes and glassware and Jesus visited it. During the Crusades, Sidon changed hands several times and was destroyed and rebuilt.

2 hours • Admission Ticket Free

Crusaders Sea Castle

The Sidon Sea Castle was built by the crusaders in the thirteenth century on a small island, connected to the mainland by a causeway, as a fortress of the holy land. It is one of the most prominent historical sites in the port city of Sidon, Lebanon. The castle was largely destroyed by the Mamluks in 1291 and was later restored by Fakhr el-Dine Maan II in the early 17th century.
Old prints of the fortress show it to be one of great beauty, but little remains of the embellishments that once decorated its ramparts.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Khan al-Franj

Khan al-Franj is one of Sidon’s main attractions. It was built in the beginning of the 17th century by Emir Fakhreddine II to be a hotel for ambassadors and a center for commercial exchange between Lebanon and France.
The hotel soon became a center for literature, religion, history, industry and diplomacy. It became a home for culture and civilization.
This is a typical khan with a large rectangular courtyard and a central fountain surrounded by covered galleries.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Debbane Palace

The Debbane Palace was Built in the Old City of Sidon in the 18th century and It is now the last house of the Ottoman period remaining in a city that has since given way to traffic and glass storefronts. Approached from a narrow stairwell in the crowded Souq, the palace is built literally on top of the markets below. Inside it contains an entire world of reception rooms, stained-glass windows, rare mosaic tiles and centuries-old stables.
the Debbane Palace marks the only example of an Ottoman palace within the city walls of urban Lebanon

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Sidon Souks

The souk of Sidon is the center of all the commercial activities of retail, as well as craft industry.
The souk is a maze of narrow alleyways with small kiosks, shops and cafes, street merchant, butchers, grocers, shoe-makers, tailors and jewelers.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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