Damour (Arabic: الدامور) is a Lebanese Christian town that is 20 km (12 mi) south of Beirut.

Most of the population is Maronite Catholic Damour, one of the few coastal cities in Lebanon with a sandy beach, is just ten minutes from Beirut.

The city has a real fascination for the Lebanese worker and attracts the largest majority of the natives in the Sahel region.

During the nights of the first world war, inhabitants met the armoured French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc sailors and received medicines, food and other needed supplies.

The city being a strategic crossing point on the road to Beirut, 21 July 1941, was the place of one of the battles that affected Lebanon during World War II Syria-Lebanon Campaign.

Australian troops, progressing towards the North along the coast, took Damour, held by the French Foreign Legion, faithful to the Vichy Government.

During 1982 Lebanon War, the Israeli Air Force bombed the city which was under the control of the Palestinian militias.

During the 2006 Lebanon War, the Israeli Air Force destroyed several bridges on Highway Beirut-Tyre and on the Damour River.

The history of the archeological bridge dates back to the era of prince-Béchir Shehab who had a great interest in it, it was considered a strategic and important transit point between Mt Lebanon and the South.