Souk El Gharb
Souk El Gharb, , is a town located in the Aley District, Mount Lebanon Governorate, in Lebanon and its name translates to "Western Market".
Souk El Gharb, , is a town located in the Aley District, Mount Lebanon Governorate, in Lebanon and its name translates to "Western Market".
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Worth seeing in and around Souk El Gharb
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.
- 01Lebanese University
The Lebanese University is the only state-funded public university in Lebanon. It was established in 1951.
5.4 km · Lebanese public university · Wikipedia - 02Horsh Beirut
Horsh Beirut is an urban park in the heart of the capital of Lebanon, Beirut. The urban park is also known as Horsh El Snaubar.
9.9 km · park in Beirut, Lebanon · Wikipedia - 03Bsous 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.
2.8 km · sheer fabrics museum in Lebanon · Wikipedia - 04Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyah
Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyah, also written as Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyah, is a Beirut-based publishing house founded in 1971 by Muhammad Ali Baydoun. It is regarded as one of the earliest and most active publishing houses in the Arab and Islamic worlds, specialising in classical Arabic and Islamic heritage works, academic publications, and translations into several international languages.
6.9 km · Lebanese publishing house · Wikipedia - 05Amin Abdelnour Stadium
Amin Abdelnour Stadium, also known as Bhamdoun Municipal Stadium, is a football field located in Bhamdoun, Lebanon. With a total capacity of 3,500, it is the home stadium of Akhaa Ahli Aley.
8.8 km · stadium in Bhamdoun, Lebanon · Wikipedia
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Getting to Souk El Gharb
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 8 km · Damascus (DAM), 98 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 206 km
- Stations
- Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, 7.6 km · Beirut Air Base, 7.6 km
- Damascus → Souk El Gharb74 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · $8–11
- Amman → Souk El Gharb207 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · JD11–15
- Tel Aviv → Souk El Gharb204 km · quickest by road, 6h 27m · ₪135–180
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No local-transport research exists yet for Souk El Gharb
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 Souk El Gharb. 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 Souk El Gharb
Souk El Gharb is 13 km from Beirut, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Baabdacity in Lebanon5 km
- Aleytown in Lebanon3.7 km
- Baabda Districtdistrict of Lebanon5.1 km
- Aley Districtdistrict of Lebanon3.8 km
- Dahyehsouthern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon8 km
- Bhamdountown in Lebanon8.8 km