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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".

Tebnine
Tebnine · Julien-Antoine Desforges
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Toron

    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
  2. 02
    Aard 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Three Crusader castles, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Mount Amel Castles can be found here:

  1. 01
    Toron Castle
  2. 02
    Dubieh Castle
  3. 03
    Maron Castle

From Wikivoyage: Tebnine, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Tebnine

Airports
Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 70 km · Damascus (DAM), 105 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 140 km
  • Beirut → Tebnine
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · $8–12
  • Damascus → Tebnine
    89 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · $12–16
  • Amman → Tebnine
    147 km · quickest by road, 5h 34m · JD13–17
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    319 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    402 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    529 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    626 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,000 km

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Around it

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