Matn District
Matn (Arabic: قضاء المتن, romanized: Qaḍāʾ al-Matn, sometimes spelled Metn, is a district in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut.
Matn (Arabic: قضاء المتن, romanized: Qaḍāʾ al-Matn, sometimes spelled Metn, is a district in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. The district capital is Jdeideh.
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Worth seeing in and around Matn District
5 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.
- 01Holy 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.
2.5 km · Canonical See of the Armenian Apostolic Church · Wikipedia - 02Ksar Akil
Ksar Akil is an archeological site 10 km northeast of Beirut in Lebanon. It is located about 800 m west of Antelias spring on the north bank of the northern tributary of the Wadi Antelias.
3 km · Upper Paleolithic site in Lebanon · Wikipedia - 03stadium Bourj Hammoud
Bourj Hammoud Stadium is a stadium in Bourj Hammoud, Beirut, Lebanon. It is mostly used for football matches, and has a capacity of 10,000 people.
3 km · Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon · Wikipedia - 04Ras El Kelb
Ras El Kelb is a truncated seaside cave and Paleolithic settlement located on the low-lying ) coast of Lebanon, 8 km north of Beirut. It is one of the oldest habitations found in the country.
2.6 km · cave in Lebanon · Wikipedia - 05Antelias cave
Antelias Cave was a large cave located 2.5 km east of Antelias, 10 km northeast of Beirut close to the wadi of Ksar Akil.
3.6 km · cave in Lebanon · Wikipedia
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Getting to Matn District
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 12 km · Damascus (DAM), 102 km · Larnaca (LCA), 210 km
- Damascus → Matn District69 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · $8–11
- Amman → Matn District218 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · JD11–15
- Larnaca → Matn District222 km · quickest by road, 16h 59m · €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 Matn 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 Matn District. 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 Matn District
Matn District is 7 km from Beirut, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.