| Duration: | 8 Hour(s) - 0 Minute(s) |
| Tour Category: | City Tour |
Tyre, founded around 3000 BC, was an important trading Phoenician island city, famous for surviving a 13-year siege by Nebuchadnezzar, and then fell to Alexander the Great, who built a causeway connecting Tyre to the mainland. Tyre made its name by discovering and exporting red dye extracted from the murex sea snail, which still survives at Tyre’s shores today.
Places of interest include Hay el Ramel, Alexander’s causeway, the site of the ancient island city with mosaic streets, Roman baths, and an arena, the remains of a crusader church, a Roman-Byzantine necropolis, and the largest Roman hippodrome ever found, built of stone rather than the usual bricks.
