Tebnine
Tibnin is a municipality spread across several hills located about 25 km (16 mi) east of Tyre, in the heart of what is known as "Jabal Amel" or the mountain of "Amel".

Tibnin is a municipality spread across several hills located about 25 km (16 mi) east of Tyre, in the heart of what is known as "Jabal Amel" or the mountain of "Amel". "Jabal Amel" designates the plateau situated on either side of the Litani river, a region strongly associated with its long-established Twelver Shia community.
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Worth seeing in and around Tebnine
2 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.
- 01Toron
Toron, now Tibnin or Tebnine in southern Lebanon, was a major Crusader castle, built in the Lebanon mountains on the road from Tyre to Damascus. The castle was the centre of the Lordship of Toron, a seigneury within the Kingdom of Jerusalem, actually a rear-vassalage of the Principality of Galilee.
300 m · castle ruin · Wikipedia - 02Aard el Borj
Aard el Borj is a mountain of southern Lebanon. It has an elevation of 671 metres.
3.1 km · mountain in Lebanon · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Three Crusader castles, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Mount Amel Castles can be found here:
- 01Toron Castle
- 02Dubieh Castle
- 03Maron Castle
From Wikivoyage: Tebnine, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Tebnine
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 70 km · Damascus (DAM), 105 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 140 km
- Beirut → Tebnine78 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · $8–12
- Damascus → Tebnine89 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · $12–16
- Amman → Tebnine147 km · quickest by road, 5h 34m · JD13–17
- 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 Tebnine
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 Tebnine. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inCharter airlines can still make the trip for you, but commercial flight service no longer operates.
- Get aroundHitch-hiking is also accepted and possible.
From Wikivoyage: Galilee Panhandle, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.
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