Dominating the Old City and rising 50m above it, a ring of crenellated walls and towers rises from a steep glacis, encircling a mass of ruins from every period – Aleppo Citadel! Always an extre...
The warren that is Aleppo souk is perhaps the city’s crown jewel in terms of attractions. Unlike the Damascus Hamadiyeh Bazaar Aleppo’s labyrinthine souks are valeted, 30km of stone passag...
Hidden away in the Old City, a few steps from the southern side of the Ummayad Mosque the Azem Palace is one of those must-see sites that no visitor should miss. It is an astonishing example of a Dama...
Damascus’s most-famous souk and the artery from the new town into the old the Hamadiyeh Souk still retains many traditional elements. Running for around 500 meters from east to west it ends bene...
The Church of St Ananias is set in an old cellar in “Judas’ House” in an alley just off the Street Called Straight. It is here that Christian tradition dictates is the house of Judas...
Not far from the main Hamadiyeh Souk lies the Straight Street, the old Via Recta, a Roman street that runs from east to west through the old city of Damascus. The name is famous from the Bible as it w...
Suwayda sits some 90 kilometres south-east of Damascus at 11m above sea level. It is well-known for vineyards which grown from the rich volcanic soil; in history the town was known as Suwada, “l...
Syria’s premier museum the National Museum contains a world-class archaeological and historical collection, collated from the country’s vast number of archaeological sites. There are two w...
This Great Ummayed Mosque stands at the heart of the Old City at the end of Souq al-Hamidiyeh. It was built by the Omayyad Caliph al-Walid ibn Abdul Malek in 705 A.D. when Damascus was the capital of ...
Located 110 km north-east of Palmyra, this palace was built by the Caliph Hisham in 628, it contains a palace-residence for the caliph and for the garrisons. There is a small mosque built in the style...
