Not a meal goes by in Lebanon without bread, which is deemed so necessary that it's sometimes referred to with the word eish, meaning ...

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As one of the world's healthiest but still one of the most flavorful diets, Lebanese food gains its taste quotient from spices instead of ...

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It may not yet rival Burgundy or Bordeaux, but the Bekaa Valley—a couple of hours from Beirut by car—yields several estimable wines. The ...

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Located high in the Chouffe Mountains, the town is most famous for its palace, completed in the 19th century, after a 30-year construction period, for ...

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This bi-level cave structure 11 miles north of Beirut has an intricate system of karstic limestone caves nearly six miles in length. The lower cave ...

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The archaeological wonders in this Phoenician city, founded at the start of the third millennium B.C., are both aboveground and underwater, earning it World ...

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Beirut and Byblos show European influences, but Tripoli is the most Arab of cities. In the medieval old city, which lies below a Crusader castle ...

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This city dates back approximately 5,000 years, with relics from the middle Bronze Age, but the overriding influence here is Roman. The scale and ...

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Thought to be the oldest city in the world, dating back 7,000 years, as well as the oldest continuously operating seaport, this city was ...

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The images of a war-torn city have receded and, even though tensions are never totally extinguished, the cosmopolitan city that Beirut was pre-war has returned ...

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