Tyre and South Lebanon
Day trip from Sidon to Tyre (Sur), the ancient Phoenician city where Alexander the Great built a legendary causeway in his siege of 332 BCE, now a UNESCO World Heritage site with extraordinary Roman remains.
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Tyre City Arrival
Arrive in Tyre (Sur in Arabic), the ancient city on its peninsula that was an island until Alexander the Great built a causeway to take it by siege in 332 BCE, the engineering feat that permanently changed the city geography.
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Roman Hippodrome
See the extraordinary Roman hippodrome at Tyre, the largest in the ancient world after the Circus Maximus in Rome, its oval track and tiered seating still impressive in the UNESCO-protected archaeological site.
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Roman Necropolis
Walk the Roman necropolis with its rows of marble sarcophagi, the funerary avenue of the Roman city preserved in extraordinary completeness along the causeway Alexander built 2,300 years ago.
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Tyre Beach
Relax on the Tyre beach, one of the finest Mediterranean beaches in Lebanon, where the white sand beach south of the ancient city is a protected nature reserve where sea turtles nest amid the archaeological landscape.
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Tyre Old City
Explore the Tyre old city on the ancient peninsula where the traditional fishing harbor, the old souk, and the daily life of this Shia city in south Lebanon creates the same combination of ancient history and contemporary Lebanese reality found in Sidon.
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Alexander's Causeway
Walk along the peninsula that Alexander created with his causeway, the narrow strip of land connecting what was once an island city to the mainland, the sedimentation that accumulated around the ancient engineering making it permanent.