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The road to Beit Eddin leaves the coastal highway 17
kilometers beyond
Beirut,
just a few kilometers after the town of Damour.
From there it climbs quickly along the beautiful Damour
river valley for 26 kilometers to an elevation of 850 meters
at Beit Eddin palace.
The most spectacular view of the palace and its surroundings
is from the village of Monastery of the Moon (Deir El-Qamar),
five kilometers before Beit Eddin.
Today the palace houses a museum of feudal weapons, costumes
and jewelry as well as an archaeological museum and a museum
of Byzantine Mosaics.
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