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National Museum of Lattakia
The National Museum of Lattakia, near the waterfront, is housed in what was once an old khan, or travellers' inn, and is worth a quick visit, if just to admire the handsome building. It contains some written tablets from Ugarit, beautiful jewellery, coins and figurines, ceramics and pottery, and a Crusader-era chain-mail suit and swords.
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Shaati al-Azraq
Six kilometres north of town, Shaati al-Azraq is Syria's premier coastal resort. While there are a few small stretches of sand in the area, access to the best stretches of beach is controlled by the Le Meridien and Cham hotels; each charges a fee per person for nonguests to use the beach and hotel swimming pool. Both hotels also hire out pedal boats, jet skis and sailboards. To get to Shaati al-Azraq take a waiting microbus from behind the large white school building on Saahat al-Sheikh Daher.
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Tetraporticus
Lattakia has precious little to show for its 3000 or so years of history. More or less the only existing monument is a right-angled Tetraporticus, a grouping of four columns, which is all that's left of a Roman gateway that once marked the eastern end of the 2nd-century-AD main street. It's on Sharia Bur Said, a short walk southwest of the train station.
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