Batroun, the coastal city, is located in northern Lebanon is one of the oldest cities of the world. Batroun is home to a Lebanese Red Cross First Aid Center. Batroun, on the coast south of Tripoli, is a major tourist destination in North Lebanon. The city was known as "Batruna" in the famous Tell al-Amarna letters of the 14th century B.C., although its history goes back even further. The town was called "Borrys" in Greco-Roman times and during the Crusader era it was a seigniory dependent on the County of Tripoli.

The castle of Mousaylaha, constructed on an isolated massive rock with steep sides protruding in the middle of a plain surrounded by mountains, is an archaeological site and a crusade ruin at Batroun. It is believed that the castle dates back to the middle ages. It consists of two floors with an internal rectangular castle that can be reached by climbing few broken stairs. The internal castle overlies a set of pillars and has a well dug in its floor connected to canals carved in the rocks.

Batroun's fishing port, supplying local markets with fresh fish, is of great antiquity. Along the sea front starting from the north end of town you will find the century-old Maronite cathedral of St. Stephan the beautiful 19th century Greek Orthodox Church of St. George and the tiny chapel known as "Sadiyat al-Bahr" or Our Lady of the Sea. This simple white-washed building has a wide verandah overlooking the sea and an excellent view of Batroun's sea wall, which is what remains of a huge quarry famous in Hellenistic and Roman times.