Seer Denniyyeh voted best village in Lebanon in OLJ competition

The northern town of Seer Denniyyeh won the best preferred village in Lebanon in the ‘village prefere des Libanais’ competition launched by L’Orient Le Jour (OLJ) in partnership with Fransabank, Suk el Tayyeb and LiveLoveBeirut initiative. The 10 contestant villages shortlisted for their distinctive archeological, touristic and environmental features were:  Tanoorine (Batroon), Seer Denniyyeh (North), Qulaile (Tyre), Hasroon (Besharreh), Maaser el Shuf (Shuf), Tebnin (Bint Jbeil), Akoora (Jbeil), Bhamdoon (Aley), Beit Shabeb (Metn) and Anjar (Zahle). Each village or town displayed as well rare culinary, artisanal or traditional treasures. Commenting on the news, the mayor of Seer Denniyyeh, Ahmad Alam, said that while this victory has brought the village of Sir to the forefront as a touristic and media destination, it placed greater responsibility on the municipality in terms of rehabilitation and development of the town’s facilities to be able to accommodate projected visitors and holidaymakers. Likewise, the president of the Federation of Municipalities of Seer Denniyyeh, Mohamed Saadiyeh, pointed out that selecting Seer as the best town by the Lebanese constituted a cultural turning point that should be complemented by the government. The latter “should realize that despite the deliberate marginalization, deprivation and absenting the area from the development map, we managed to show the world the real image of Seer,” Sayadiyyeh boasted. (Al Mustaqbal, Al Diyar, August 20, 21, 2017)

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