The beach front town of Adlon is situated in the region of Sidon in the South Governorate and ascends to 100 meters above ocean level, with an estimated surface area of 8.7 square km, resting 61 km from Beirut and 20 km from Saida.
The town is celebrated for its ancient caverns, tombs and Phoenician vestiges. It is additionally portrayed by its wide simplicity and periods of watermelon known as the "Melon of the Adlonite".
The coastline of Adlon and stretching out to the city of Sidon through the town of Sarafand (Sarbata or Sarbatta chronicled) is one of the rich archeological locales on the Lebanese coastline, considering the critical role played by the two urban communities for a considerable length of time since the middle of the second millennium BC amid the Phoenician and later Roman and Early Christian and Byzantine periods.
A significant number of the landmarks that go back to these ages are still visible along the coastline, a large portion of which are in great condition, and as indicated by a few reviews, the landmarks of the Phoenician harbor of Adlon and other distinctive establishments (medium and substantial rock basins open to the ocean, Some of which are still in great condition aswell), which narrate the historical background of the town of Adloun and the whole coast, especially between the memorable urban communities of Tire and Sidon.
This space shapes the façade of the ancient caves of Adlon. Published researches go back to the Middle Stone Age (19000 Years), including the papers of the world archaeological excavations of Gudifrey Zumovin (1898,1900,1908) and, all the more extensively, Dorothy Garrod (1958-1963).
Because of its cultural, social and civilizational significance, Adlon has its marine and waterfront biodiversity. The Lebanon Environmental Resources Monitoring Report (ENRLN) distributed by the University of Balamand, a standout amongst the most essential reports on the natural evaluation of the Lebanese coastline, recorded Adlun in a little rundown of 15 critical and touchy destinations as "high priority" Protection on the coast of Lebanon, one of which is of social and ecological significance.
Its shoreline is a standout amongst the most jeopardized marine turtle settling destinations in the IUCN class, and the Marine Turtle Nesting Activity Assessment on the Lebanon Coast 2002 has been distinguished as the Adlon Beach, a standout amongst the most dynamic locales for settling ocean turtles in Lebanon. Take note of that the quantities of turtles still exist in the ocean Adlon and trusted by the Southern Greens.
Source: Green Southerners
