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Baakline National Library (Grand Serail)
Baakline, Coast & Mountains·4.4(70)·Free
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Housed in the grand serail of 1897 — once Baakline's courthouse, prison and gendarmerie — this heritage building was restored in the late 1980s and reopened as a public national library. Set in the main Druze town of the Chouf, it pairs handsome Ottoman-era stonework with reading rooms and a large collection. It makes a quiet, atmospheric stop away from the usual tourist trail.
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