Sereel ( known also as Siriil or Sir'il, Arabic: سرعل) is a village located in the Zgharta District in the North Governorate of Lebanon.
At an elevation of approximately 2,600 feet, the village has views of the lower Kadisha valley to the east and from higher up in its pine forest a view of the Sahel down to the city of Tripoli and the Mediterranean Sea.
[citation needed] During the presidency of Suleiman Frangieh in the 1970s, a highway was built passing through the center of Serhel and linking Beirut and Shikka on the coast to Ehden and the Kadisha Gorge higher up on Mount Lebanon.
The construction of this highway made the village of Serhel more accessible, and facilitated the construction of a large hotel and spa, Le Tournant, on the outskirts of the town.
[citation needed] Serhel is described, with a front cover of the village, in From Lebanon to California by Dr. Henry J. Zeiter, Xlibris Publishers, 2005.