Deir el Qamar Voyage Tips and guide

Deir al Qamar (Arabic: دير القمر) is a village in Mount Lebanon.

Deir al Qamar is known for its very beautiful houses with red roofs. Served as the capital city of the country for 300 years in the past, Deir al Qamar is hometown of many local politicians, philosophers, and artists such as Emir Fakhreddine, Emir Bashir Shebab, Camille Chamoun, Fouad Ephrem Boustany, and Camille Allam.

• The castle of Deir El Qamar municipality which was the home of Shihab dynasty.

• The church of Saidet et Tallé, built on the ruins of a Roman temple dedicated to the Moon. The current standing church is 500 years old. However, older successive churches used to stand at its place. The oldest and 1st church was estimated to have been built in the early centuries of Christianity but was destroyed by an earthquake in 859. The second church built by the Crusaders. The third and current church was built under the rule of Fakhr al-Din II in the 16th century.

• The wax museum of Marie Baz, where Lebanese, Ottoman and French historical figures are displayed. The wax statues are made by the French museum Grévin in Paris. The Marie Baz museum is part of the castle of Fakhr al-Din II.
• Kfarhim Grotto, 4 million years old grotto discovered by chance in 1974. A group of kids that were playing football shot the ball in a hole. They tried to retrieve the ball but it was revealed that the hole was an opening of a deep cave.

• Fakhreddine mosque which is the oldest mosque of Mount Lebanon built in 1493 by Fakhr al-Din I.

• The former synagogue, now under French Institute management. It is worth noting that roughly 12.5% of locals in Deir El Qamar were Jews in the late 19th century. The last Jews left in the 1960s.

• Mar Abda Maronite monastery.

• Moussa Castle. A boy in love with an aristocratic girl and a dream of building his castle to impress her.

• The statue of the former Lebanese president Camille Nimr Chamoun at the central public square.

• Mount of the Cross. The cross was built by Mar Yaacoub al-Kabouchi in 1929. The mount is of strategic importance, each occupying force positioned its artilleries on the mount.

There are souvenirs shopsin the castle of Fakhr al-Din II, in front of Dany Chamoun public square.

There are two water springs just after the mini-pump station, colloquially called "Chalout".