UNESCO World Heritage for Lebanon

UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 5 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Lebanon to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Lebanon for descriptions.


1984 - Anjar
1984 - Tyre
1984 - Byblos
1984 - Baalbek
1998 - Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)