Tour in Syria
Qalaat Saladin (Saladin's Castle) or the "Chateau of Saone" (Sahyun) was, according to art historian Ross Burns (Monuments of Syria), "The most romantic of the castles". To architectural historian Fedden (Crusader Castles), "this was the finest and best preserved of the feudal castles prior to the profound modification in defensive architecture that came at the end of the twelfth century.
When you will decide to visit Sidnaya, you have to go up to the highest mountain in Syria, on the high of 2000 m above see level , you are going to find the Cherubim Monastery
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When you start smelling coffee, cardamom, perfumes and spices you should realize that you have entered alBuzourieh, one of the old bazaars in Old Damascus. And when you are there, you should look for alSibaei House, a unique monument in architecture, style, lighting, and stones. The house was built at the end of the 18th century in a lane called Dakkakin-Nassif Pasha Avenue, on an area of 1500sm, just a few meters from a similar house known as Beit Nizam.
By LIONEL BEEHNER ( The New York Times)
TO shouts of “yella-yella” — move along! — the driver of a donkey lugging a wagon overstuffed with pistachios parted the throngs of shoppers in Aleppo’s medieval souk. It was the middle of Ramadan, just hours before the iftar, the evening meal when Muslims break their daily fast, and the market’s serpentine rows of squat stalls were filled with black-veiled women and keffiyeh-clad men, sniffing the handmade olive soaps and stocking up on spices.Spring and autumn are the best times to visit when temperatures are around 25c.
The best months are April, May, June , September and October when sunshine is guaranteed and there is unlikely to be any rain. The summer moths of July and August are very hot by western standards with temperatures as high as 40 C. In the winter moths it can be cold and wet but there will be beautiful clear sunny days as well. Daylight hours are very short though, with sunset as early as 16.20 in December and sunrise at 06.40. Even in late march sunset is at 17.45, and with sunrise at 5.30, so you should take this into account when planning itineraries. In high summer it gets dark at 20.00 and light at 05.15 , so all in all it pays to be an early riser. In Ramadan opening hours are foreshortened , with museums, sites and monuments tending to close at 15.00, so this must be taken into account in your itinerary planning as well.
By Syria Tribune
Handicrafts market at the Sulaymaniyah Tekke(hospice) is one of the most important markets in Damascus and is considered the destination of foreign and Arab tourists. You can Find in this market many ancient crafts such as brokar industry, mosaics, silver industries, drilling on the wood, inlays and engraving copper.
Dating to the late 19th century in its present from, the souk Al-hamadiye owes its names to the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II who refurbished the souk into its current format with high metal roof above double-storey shop façades, where the offices and storerooms are ranged on the upper storey.
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The Grand Mosque of Damascus, known more commonly as the Umayyad Mosque, is one of the largest, oldest and holiest mosques in the world.It was built by the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid bin Abdul-Malek between AD 705 and 715.
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Beit rose - literally (the house of rose) is a damascene house, from the 18th century, sensitively restored over a two-year period to preserve its character and update it to modern standards of comfort without losing any of its charm.
