Dekwaneh
Dekwaneh is a suburb north of Beirut in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.
Dekwaneh is a suburb north of Beirut in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. The population is predominantly Maronite Christian. Tel al-Zaatar, an UNRWA administered Palestinian refugee camp housing approximately 50,000-60,000 refugees, and the site of the Tel al-Zaatar massacre were located on the outskirts of the town.
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Worth seeing in and around Dekwaneh
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.
- 01American University of Beirut
The American University of Beirut is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its main campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, autonomous board of trustees and offers programs leading to bachelor's, master's, MD, and PhD degrees.
6.1 km · private university in Lebanon · Wikipedia - 02National 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.
2.7 km · museum in Lebanon · Wikipedia - 03Mohammad 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.
3.9 km · Muslim mosque · Wikipedia - 04Saint 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.
3.4 km · private Catholic research university in Beirut, Lebanon · Wikipedia - 05Lebanese University
The Lebanese University is the only state-funded public university in Lebanon. It was established in 1951.
6 km · Lebanese public university · 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.
5.8 km · Canonical See of the Armenian Apostolic Church · Wikipedia - 07Saint 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.
4 km · church and museum in Beirut · Wikipedia - 08Camille 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.
4.6 km · multi-purpose stadium in Beirut · Wikipedia - 09Sursock Museum
The Sursock Museum, officially known as the Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum, is a modern and contemporary art museum in Beirut, Lebanon.
3 km · modern art and contemporary art museum in Beirut, Lebanon · Wikipedia - 10Lebanese National Library
The Lebanese National Library, located in Beirut, is the national library of Lebanon. It closed to the public in 1979 due to the Lebanese Civil War, and its surviving collections were placed in storage.
5.3 km · Library in Beirut, Lebanon · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dekwaneh
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 8 km · Damascus (DAM), 104 km · Larnaca (LCA), 208 km
- Stations
- Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, 8.2 km · Port of Beirut, 3.6 km
- Damascus → Dekwaneh80 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · $9–12
- Amman → Dekwaneh217 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · JD12–15
- Larnaca → Dekwaneh211 km · quickest by road, 16h 44m · €90–125
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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 Dekwaneh
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 Dekwaneh. 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 Dekwaneh
Dekwaneh is 4 km from Beirut, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Beirutcapital and largest city of Lebanon3 km
- Baabdacity in Lebanon5 km
- Aleytown in Lebanon9.7 km
- Matn Districtdistrict of Lebanon3.7 km
- Bourj Hammoudtown and municipality in Lebanon1.6 km
- Baabda Districtdistrict of Lebanon4.9 km