Beit Mery
Beit Mery is a Lebanese town overlooking the capital Beirut.
Beit Mery is a Lebanese town overlooking the capital Beirut. The town has been a summer mountain resort since the times of the Phoenicians and later the Romans.
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Worth seeing in and around Beit Mery
10 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.
- 01National Museum of Beirut
The National Museum of Beirut is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. The collection begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942.
7.6 km · museum in Lebanon · Wikipedia - 02Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque
The Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque, also referred to as the Blue Mosque, is a Sunni mosque, 72 m high, minarets´ roof of 65 m high and main dome spire of 48 m high and its roof 42 m, is located in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. In the 19th century, a zawiya was built on this site.
8.8 km · Muslim mosque · Wikipedia - 03Saint Joseph University of Beirut
Saint Joseph University of Beirut is a private Catholic research university in Beirut, Lebanon, founded in 1875 by French Jesuit missionaries and subsidized by the Government of France during the time when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule. As the oldest French university in Lebanon, it promotes Lebanese culture and upholds a policy of equal admission opportunity without consideration of ethno-religious affiliations.
8.4 km · private Catholic research university in Beirut, Lebanon · Wikipedia - 04Lebanese University
The Lebanese University is the only state-funded public university in Lebanon. It was established in 1951.
8 km · Lebanese public university · Wikipedia - 05Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral is the seat of the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan bishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut and its dependencies. It is the city's oldest extant church: it has been built over the disappeared Anastasi Romano-Byzantine Cathedral.
9 km · church and museum in Beirut · Wikipedia - 06Holy See of Cilicia
The Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church. Since 1930, the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia has been headquartered in Antelias, Lebanon.
5.9 km · Canonical See of the Armenian Apostolic Church · Wikipedia - 07Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium
Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium with a capacity of 49,500 seats, located in the Bir Hassan area of Beirut, Lebanon. The stadium, equipped with athletics facilities, is the largest in the country, and is mostly used for football matches.
9.2 km · multi-purpose stadium in Beirut · Wikipedia - 08Sursock Museum
The Sursock Museum, officially known as the Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum, is a modern and contemporary art museum in Beirut, Lebanon.
7.9 km · modern art and contemporary art museum in Beirut, Lebanon · Wikipedia - 09law school of Berytus
The law school of Berytus was a center for the study of Roman law in classical antiquity located in Berytus. It flourished under the patronage of the Roman emperors and functioned as the Roman Empire's preeminent center of jurisprudence until its destruction in AD 551.
9 km · ancient school of Roman law, to 551 AD · Wikipedia - 10Maronite Cathedral of Saint George, Beirut
Saint George Maronite Cathedral is the cathedral of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut, located in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Constructed between 1884 and 1894 under Archbishop Joseph Debs, the cathedral stands on the site of an earlier 18th-century church dedicated to Saint George.
8.9 km · church in Beirut, Lebanon · Wikipedia
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Getting to Beit Mery
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 11 km · Damascus (DAM), 99 km · Larnaca (LCA), 213 km
- Stations
- Port of Beirut, 8.3 km
- Damascus → Beit Mery74 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · $9–13
- Amman → Beit Mery214 km · quickest by road, 4h 46m · JD12–16
- Larnaca → Beit Mery217 km · quickest by road, 16h 59m · €90–125
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Beit Mery
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 Beit Mery. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inReaching Lebanon by ferry is quite a challenge, the only regular passenger ferry is a twice-weekly service from Tasucu, just outside Mersin, Turkey to the northern city of Tripoli by the Lebanese company MedStar.
- Get inApart from that single passenger ferry, the only way of reaching Lebanon by sea is by cruise ship or — for the more adventurous traveller — freighter travel or a private yacht.
- Get aroundSome mountain villages don't have public transport links between them hence hitchhiking is a way to get around.
- Get aroundThe hitchhiking concept is well understood among the people and locals are keen to pick up travellers even if they don't speak any foreign languages.
From Wikivoyage: Lebanon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Beit Mery
Beit Mery is 9 km from Beirut, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Beirutcapital and largest city of Lebanon8 km
- Baabdacity in Lebanon5.9 km
- Aleytown in Lebanon6.7 km
- Matn Districtdistrict of Lebanon3.8 km
- Bourj Hammoudtown and municipality in Lebanon6 km
- Baabda Districtdistrict of Lebanon6 km