Tailor-made Lebanon Tours 2026, 2027 & 2028

Beirut’s downtown core features the Place de l’Étoile, where 1920s French-mandate architecture sits atop a Roman colonnaded street. The National Museum houses the world’s most significant collection of Phoenician sarcophagi, while the Gemmayzeh district preserves 19th-century Levantine mansions and Staircase of the Arts, now the centre of the city’s independent gallery and cafe scene.

Located in the Bekaa Valley, Baalbek features the Temple of Jupiter, supported by six 22-metre-high columns—the tallest in the Roman world. The adjacent Temple of Bacchus remains structurally intact, retaining its ornate stone carvings of lions and bulls. These monuments sit atop a megalithic platform containing the Trilithon, three foundation stones weighing 800 tonnes each.