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About Syrian Arab Republic

Syria is steeped in history, its capital Damascus is the worlds longest inhabited city and second city Aleppo is almost as old. The best-preserved Roman theatre on the planet stands in Bosra and the Roman city of Palmyra is equally impressive. Luxury hotels and boutique hotels are few and far between, but if you manage to book a room, they make all the difference when exploring the rest of the country.

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Travel articles about Syrian Arab Republic

Going with the Flow | Anthony Sattin | Syrian Arab Republic, The Southern Provinces, Damascus

All the treasures of the Middle East there to be taken in at a glance, at once a dazzling contrast to the desert surrounding the city and an eloquent reminder of what has drawn people there over the centuries

Seidnaya | William Dalrymple | Syrian Arab Republic, The Southern Provinces, Damascus

At first sight, with its narrow windows and great rugged curtain walls, it looks more like a Crusader castle than a convent

Syria & Lebanon Round-up | Sarah Anderson | Syrian Arab Republic, The Southern Provinces, Damascus

It’s easy to get lost in the old city of Damascus, but if you do, don't panic - the Syrians are kind and helpful

Syria and Lebanon Notes | Sarah Anderson | Syrian Arab Republic, The Southern Provinces, Damascus

Damascus has a valid claim to be the world's oldest inhabited city. Today it combines the unchanging feeling of the Middle East - with its suqs, mosques and narrow streets - with increasingly modern surrounding

Syria | John Hatt | Syrian Arab Republic, The Northeastern Desert, Aleppo

You are safe everywhere, probably several hundred times safer than in New York. You aren't hassled by shopkeepers or cheated by taxi-drivers. And so many people invite you for coffee or tea that after a few days

Elusive Aleppo | Mark Hudson | Syrian Arab Republic, The Northeastern Desert, Aleppo

The call to prayer goes up from first one mosque, then another - the long wavering notes overlapping, filling the darkening sky with their conference of yearning and wonder

Ancient Aleppo | Amar Grover | Syrian Arab Republic, The Northeastern Desert, Aleppo

From pagan temple to church, mosques to fortress, palace to cafeteria, this citadel has seen it all; ruins and remains scatter its slopes. 'Halab', the city's Arabic name, derives from the word for milk; it's up here, by the Mosque of Abraham, that Abraham reputedly milked his cow - and where I paused for a cup of coffee

Aleppo | Nick Maes | Syrian Arab Republic, The Northeastern Desert, Aleppo

Aleppo claims to be the oldest, continually inhabited city in the world – a crown that Damascus or Benares might dispute; but who cares about a millennium or two?

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