Rural Routes Jbail-Batroun

06/03/2023

Beit Noun is a family-run operation. The Noun family has owned it for hundreds of years, and the new generation decided to transform it into a guesthouse. It is located just above Mar Charbel, 900 meters above sea level. We started working on it just before the pandemic started, and it opened in sum...

06/06/2022

It's Wine o'clock! ... 🍷

“Byblos en Blanc et Rosé”

Date: 23,24 & 25 June 2022
Location: Byblos harbour
Time: Starting 7 PM

04/07/2017

Workshop on clustering for Jbeil Batroun region/LIVCD USAID The Lebanon Industry Value Chain Development - LIVCD Project

02/07/2017

Interested in spending the weekend in Ghalboun and attend its international Festival????

The first is originated from “Galbouno” meaning “prevail or the strong”, but in the syriac language it means “The Sword”. You can see that the village is shaped like as a sword. The 2

29/06/2017

Find your guides in Rural Area in Jbail and Batroun

(06/ 530 027).  You can discover honey production and sales, guided visit to the beehives, and oak honey tasting with home-brewed coffee and homemade honey-based dessert.

20/06/2017

Rural Routes launching ceremony in Batroun USAID Lebanon

19/06/2017

Smar Jbail  is a village located in the Batroun District in the North of Lebanon. It is located on a hill facing the Mediterenean sea at 500 m elevation. It is one of the oldest villages in Lebanon. In the Middle Ages, the Maronites took it as a refuge from their enemy’s attacks.

18/06/2017

Patriarchal seat from 1120 to 1440 AD. This beautiful, small church dates to 1121 AD. There’s a tradition that the Monastery of Our Lady of Elij took the place of one of the train stations of the Roman road from

17/06/2017

In Aramaic, Rachana means « Me, the Head ». Bordered by the sea to the West, the famous castle of Smar Jbeil to the East and the Madfoun River to the South. The village of Rachana dominates all the other hills, like a lighthouse. Follow the coastal road until reaching Madfoun bridge, turn right, sta...

16/06/2017

It is the oldest church in Maad, it is closed and visitors have to ask for the key at Mrs. Ghalieh Issa’s house. It was built in the 12

15/06/2017

century, it is carved into the rocks, where there are caves and remains of rooms in the pockets of the sheer cliff. It was destroyed in 1405, leaving only the altar’s apse, some vaults, a rock basin and a room built from rocks standing on top of the rocks, which no one has reached since the destruct...