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Pictures of Travels in Syria: Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra, Krak_des_Chevaliers, Apamea
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Azem Palace-Damascus - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: One of most famous buildings of Old Damascus. Built by Asa’ad Pasha al-Azem, governor of Damascus, in 1749. Now houses the Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions. With beautiful gardens, polychrome stone, splendid marble, cascading fountains, and fragrant flowers it is an astonishing example of an ancient Damascene house.
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Mirror in Azem Palace-Damascus - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: One of most famous buildings of Old Damascus. Built by Asa’ad Pasha al-Azem, governor of Damascus, in 1749. Now houses the Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions. With beautiful gardens, polychrome stone, splendid marble, cascading fountains, and fragrant flowers it is an example of Damascene house.
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Dahdah Palace-Damascus - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Dahdah Palace, one of the ancient damascene houses, was built by a Turkish Pasha more than 300 years ago. It has 18 rooms. Now owned by the family of George Dahdah. His wife runs a antique shop inside.
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Hama - Water-wheel -Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: This calm city between Alepo and Damascus, crossed by Orontes river, is famous by its noisy wooden water-wheels on the bank of the river, 20 meters diameter. They were built ages ago for water supply in the city and for irrigation control.
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Via Recta-Spices-Damascus-Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The shops along Via Recta, the main link between east and west Damascus in the Old City, are filled with textiles, aromatic spices, wooden handicrafts and sweets.
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Bagdad Café - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The famous Bagdad Café in the middle of the desert between Damascus (135km from) and Palmyra (105 km from). It is crammed with fossils, minerals, pottery and carpets.
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Krak des Chevaliers - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The finest castle in the world, according to TE Lawrence, was built between 1150 and 1250. It guards the only major pass between Antakya in Turkey and Beirut in Lebanon. It is 650 m above sea-level, an area of 3000 square meters and has 13 huge towers.It was built for controlling the Homs Gap, gateway to Sryia.
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Krak des Chevaliers - Syria
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Through this strategic corridor Syria communicated with the Mediterranean. It was of crucial importance to the Crusaders and other foreign invaders in their conquest of the coast.
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