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 Damascus

The oldest still inhabited city in the whole world has the charm of the old and modern, wonderfully integrated. Centered in the middle of Syria, and it is only one-hour drive from Lebanon and tow hours drive from Jordan.


The ommayad mosque is in the center of the old city with the tombs of john the babtist and Saladin inside.
Spiritual sites, Ananias chapel, street called straight, st. Paul's window, and the covered bazaars surround the great mosque.
The very rich national museum the tukieh suleimanieh and the handicraft center are all within five minutes walk from each other.

The convent of our lady of saydnaya is a byzantine building dates back to the 6th center keeping the icon of the holy virgin painted by st.luke.

Maloula is one of three villages where the local people are still speaking the language of Jesus Christ, was Aramic. It's a town of fantasy full of spiritual stories.

The pearl of the Syrian desert, the capital of queen zenobia, an oasis of about 500000 trees, an Arabian city 240 kms away from Damascus, famous with its ruins which are necropolis temples of baal shamine and bel-the agora-
The main street with its columns-the funeral towers and the museum.

A civilization of more than 5000 years old. An important port on the Euphrates.

The palace of Mari is the largest one in the ancient world.

A military site founded by sulucus on the Euphrates.


A Christian church and 16 pagan temples were discovered there.
 

Sirgiopolis was the Byzantine name of this town, which became a pilgrimage center during the Byzantine era.

A basilica; martyrdom-cathedra.

180kms long and 20kms wide.
 

The capital of the north of Syria, the second after Damascus famous with its citadel-oldsouks-ommayad mosque- Fardoss madrasa and the museum.

45 kms away from Aleppo, a fascinating site with the story of Simeon who spent 37 years of his life praying on the top of a pillar.

A very important kingdom dates back to the third and second millinia b.c discoverd recently and was a very important station on the caravan routes.

On of the strongest military sites of the crusaders liberated by Salah al din in the twelfth century.
 

Founded by sulukus nicator in the fourth century b.c and given the name laudesia which was sulukus mother's
Name nowadays it is the first Syrian sea harbour.
 

11 kms away from lattakia, one of the Phoenician kingdom on the Mediterranean. The most important discovery was the first alphabet in the whole world found in the archives of ugarit.
 

The central military training baraks of the seljukids troops. Occupied by the romans in 64 b.c.
It became an important religious center during the Byzantine era. The museum of Aphamia is very famous for its mosaic.
 

The city of the water wheels on the Orantes River.
 

Built by the crusaders in the 11Th century. It was the most fortified crusaders strong point in the Middle East, Having rooms for 4000 soldiers, liberated by sultan Zaher baybars in 1272 and was used as a military site by the Moslems.

The birthplace of philipos the Arab, the emperor of Rome between 244 and a.d.

Was inhabited by the nabateans who built Petra in Jordan, occupied by the romans in the second century.

It has atheatre, which is one of the few intact in the whole world.