Damascus and The South Travel Guide
Beyond the "Street Called Straight"
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Said to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the world the Syrian capital of Damascus certainly feels like it when you start to explore its winding cobbled backstreets. When you look closely you can see that much dates from Roman and medieval times infusing this biblical city with atmosphere, lent by such sites as the Umayyed Mosque, the Street Called Straight, the Azem Palace and Saladin’s Tomb.
A short distance north is the Christian enclave of Maaloula where the last few people of the Levant to speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus, can be found; discover here too important monasteries and, to the east on the edge of the desert the wonderful Deir Mar Musa.
In the Druze town of Bosra to the south, close to the border with Jordan one can gaze upon one of the most impressive and certainly best-preserved Roman theatres in the world, built out of the solid black basalt of the south.
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