Tripoli
Worth seeing in and around Tripoli
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.
- 01University of Tripoli
The University of Tripoli, is the largest university in Libya and is located in the capital city of Tripoli. It was founded in 1957 as a branch of the University of Libya before it was divided in 1973 to become what is now known as the University of Tripoli.
5.5 km · university in Libya · Wikipedia - 02Martyrs' Square
The Martyrs' Square, known as Green Square under the Gaddafi government, Independence Square during the monarchy, and originally known as Piazza Italia, is a downtown landmark at the bay in the city of Tripoli, Libya. The main commercial center of the city surrounds the square.
1 km · square in Tripoli, Libya · Wikipedia - 03Tripoli Stadium International
The Tripoli International Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Tripoli, Libya. It can hold 50,000 spectators.
5.7 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 04Gurgi Mosque
The Gurgi Mosque is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in Tripoli, Libya. The mosque lies in the heart of old Tripoli as part of a complex of historic buildings.
1.7 km · mosque · Wikipedia - 05Tripoli Cathedral
The Tripoli Cathedral, is a former Roman Catholic cathedral located on what was called Piazza della Cattedrale in the city centre of Tripoli, the capital of Libya. Completed as a church in the 1920s during the Italian Libya colonial era, the building was repurposed as the Algeria Square Mosque in c. 1970, and the square renamed as Algeria/Elgazayer Square.
400 m · building in Libya · Wikipedia - 06Abu Salim prison
Abu Salim prison is a maximum security prison in Tripoli, Libya. The prison was notorious during the rule of Muammar Gaddafi for alleged mistreatment and human rights abuses, including a massacre in 1996 in which Human Rights Watch estimated that 1,270 prisoners were killed.
6.1 km · building in Libya · Wikipedia - 07Caramanli mosque
The Karamanli Mosque, also known as the Ahmed Karamanli Mosque, is an 18th-century mosque in Tripoli, Libya.
1.1 km · mosque in Tripoli, Libya · Wikipedia - 08The National Libyan Museum
The Red Castle Museum, also known as As-saraya Al-hamra Museum, the Archaeological Museum of Tripoli or Jamahiriya Museum, is a national museum in Libya. It is located in the historic building known as the Red Castle of Tripoli, sometimes also referred to as Red Saraya, on the promontory above and adjacent to the old-town district with medina Ghadema.
1.1 km · national museum in Tripoli, Libya · Wikipedia - 09Sidi Darghut Mosque
The Sidi Darghut Mosque, also known as the Jama Sidi Darghut, is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in Tripoli, Libya. It was built in approximately 1560 CE by Dragut on the site of a Hospitaller church, parts of which were incorporated into the mosque.
1.6 km · mosque in Tripoli, Libya · Wikipedia - 10Diocese of Oea
The Diocese of Oea is a suppressed and titular See of the Roman Catholic Church.
2.4 km · Titular See of the Roman Catholic Church · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tripoli
- Airports
- Mitiga (MJI), 9 km · Djerba Zarzis (DJE), 249 km
- Stations
- Mitiga International Airport, 8.6 km · Port of Tripoli, 2 km
- Benina → Tripoli2829 km · quickest by road, 77h 15m · $300–410
- Al Albraq → Tripoli1769 km · quickest by air, 7h 16m · MAD1,900–2,940
- Mellita → Tripoli279 km · quickest by air, 8h 46m · $350–510
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No local-transport research exists yet for Tripoli
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 Tripoli. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis journey should only be completed in daylight hours as its very dangerous at night, many sheep, camels, cows, and of course shepherds roam the roads in evening and are hard to spot.
- Get inTripoli used to be connected with ferries from Malta and other parts of the Mediterranean.
- Get inHowever, due to decades of isolation and the current turmoil there are as of 2022 no scheduled ferries to Tripoli or anywhere else in Libya.
- Get inFor those intent on travelling by ferry, an option might be to travel to neighboring Tunisia, a country that receives plenty of ferries from ports in Europe, and continue overland.
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- Fall of Tripoli1289 capture of city in the Crusades1.4 km
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- Souq al Jum'aaneighborhood4.3 km
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