location: The city of Sidon on the east coast of the Mediterranean basin. Away from the capital, Beirut, 45 km south of city covers an area of seven square kilometers, almost a very easy fertility until the beginning of the seventies of this century where it was occupied by citrus groves. But the spread of urbanization and population growth have led to shrinking area of orchards at the expense of residential buildings and commercial and industrial institutions .
Population: The population of the city registered 89,152 people, of whom 48480 voters, while its inhabitants amounts to roughly 68,910 resident in addition to about 50 thousand Palestinian refugees who live in the Ein el-Hilweh camp, which is a poor suburb .
Features: Taatmazmedinh Sidon as ancient and steeped in history, and the effects that tells her stories: Old Town, Castle marine, land, port, port fishermen, Great Omari Mosque, churches and Khan Franks archaeological and bathrooms.
Enjoy city of Sidon benefits several: they county, and where commercial functions sophisticated and also features uniqueness faced marine and region heritage, Hloyatha and Food diverse; All of this makes it a tourist attraction mission, in addition to opening up to the agricultural areas in southern Lebanon .
The development of the city of Sidon and prosperity necessarily requires maintaining the privacy of the city, and maintenance and to highlight the advantages of the city: encountered marine heritage region, markets, craft activities, public institutions and facilitated by agricultural ...
The industrially, The city of Sidon area includes industrial and located in the south of the city .
Sidon also has significant capabilities in the field of housing, thanks to the surrounding hills and overlooking the sea, which has seen significant residential growth .
Effects of Sidon: Sidon witnessed the movement of important archaeological discoveries after conducting excavations in Sidon and its surroundings and landmarks that must-visit .
Sea Castle: The history of building this castle to the thirteenth century AD, and is Castle relate to the beach by a stone bridge half fixed and the other half is moving, so that they can submit it to isolate the castle from the mainland and left from the effects of the old bridge Alda'ama North and is the closest to the castle, and the castle was constructed in stages between 1227 and 1291, and currently showing additions and renovations that have taken place in the Mamluk era, especially West Tower. And a small mosque located close to the remains of a Crusader castle church and this building dates back to the Ottoman era mosque .
Barr Castle: And bear this castle name Castle of St. Louis and on is twice the ninth king of the Franks, who led the Seventh Crusade, and is renovating a large number of castles and fortified including Castle Sidon which lies on top of the hill old, who oversees the city, for its part, South and has erected this castle on the ruins of another castle attributed to the caliph of the Fatimid era, and is similar to the scheme castle image bow and in the middle of the bow of this arc is the large tower and spread over the slopes of the hill archaeological columns dating back to the Roman era.
Hill Almriv :To the south of the castle located high ground artificial length to about 100 meters and a height of about 50 meters high and this may be the accumulation of residue the shells Almriv is extracted from oyster purple pigment, so called Alihaasm hill Almriv .
Khan Afrang: Khan consists of a rectangular courtyard strikethrough Basin and surrounded by water floors, Ground of goods, animals and top ratings. This was Khan the center of commercial activity, and later turned into the headquarters of the French consul and then the seat of the Franciscan Fathers, and then an orphanage for girls, but today, after its restoration has become the seat of the French Cultural Center in the capital of the South Lebanon .
Great Omari Mosque: This mosque is situated near the beach, just south of the old Western markets It is traditionally accepted that the construction was in the past the church has been converted days Mamluk mosque and now seems to be a combination of structures crusade the Mamluk, either reforms that have occurred in the northern part of it show some of the old structural elements that you have used a .
Cemeteries: There must be reference to the importance of Almqaparvi Sidon, which have been found on the sarcophagus of King Chidona second motif Ashmoun and is located in the Louvre, and the second cemetery that lies beneath semicircular village found Noawess famous marble sarcophagus of Alexander, fibrous sarcophagus, sarcophagus satrap Naos Alandabat and are found in the Museum of Istanbul. Ain al-Hilweh cemetery southeast of Sidon and then find a range of marble sarcophagi and is now in the National Museum in Beirut.
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Lebanon