Aley District
Aley is a district (qadaa) in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, to the south-east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut.
Aley is a district (qadaa) in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, to the south-east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. The capital is Aley which was known as the "bride of the summers" in the 1960 and 1970s, when the city was an attractive tourist location.
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Worth seeing in and around Aley District
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Bsous Silk Museum
Bsous Silk Museum is a silk museum in the town of Bsous near Wadi Chahrour in Lebanon, located around 15 kilometres east of Beirut.
2.9 km · sheer fabrics museum in Lebanon · Wikipedia - 02Aley Synagogue
The Aley Synagogue also known as the Ohel Jacob Synagogue, is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Aley, in the Aley district of Lebanon. The synagogue was completed in 1895.
200 m · synagogue in Aley, Lebanon · Wikipedia
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Getting to Aley District
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 11 km · Damascus (DAM), 95 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 207 km
- Damascus → Aley District68 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · $8–10
- Amman → Aley District204 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · JD11–15
- Tel Aviv → Aley District204 km · quickest by road, 6h 22m · ₪135–180
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No local-transport research exists yet for Aley District
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aley District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPublic transport There are regular public minivans (usually every five-ten minutes) that go to the Downtown area and to the Charles Helou Station from the airport.
- Get aroundService [ser-vee-s] are shared-taxis, the same taxis as above but shared between four or more people.
- Get aroundThe OCFTC that operates a fleet of blue and white city-buses, and the LCC with a fleet of red and white minibuses; Bus fares cost either LL500 (OCFTC bus 24) or LL1000.
From Wikivoyage: Beirut, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Aley District
Aley District is 13 km from Beirut, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.