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The road to Damascus
... It all looked pretty normal to me anyway and with the magnitude of yellow cabs around it reminded me most of Manhattan, NYC! The citadel and adjacent markets were the first stop. You can't actually get into the citadel but it still looks pretty ...
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Damascus To Aleppo - Syria.
... , cooking, bakery and storeroom facilities designed to hold food for 2,000 people for five years. The castle (or more correctly the Citadel) is three and a half hectares and has inner and outer walls with a moat between, dug out of sheer rock. It is all ...
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Friendly Welcome in Aleppo
... made us tea and we gave our sore feet a rest. Once the brief break was over, Ancilla lead the chase off to the Citadel and the Christian quarter. In one day we'd seen all of the historical sights of Aleppo. I'd never met someone who could walk as fast ...
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Happy Thanksgiving from Damascus!
... idea of where they were going and said we could go with them-so we did, gladly. We walked about 15 minutes to get to the Citadel and then we walked along the mosque wall to get to our first stop-George Dabdoub for table cloths. All of us bought enough ...
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Failed Attempt 1, Damascus
... I would have to get a visa from the USA. And it was final. So instead of spending another night in Damascus as I originally planned because I wanted to see the Citadel and Grand Mosque and Souk, I went to the garage to get a bus to Amman. This way I ...
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Damn that Bloody Sun... and the Israelis
... with round circles of lights, courtesy of 1925 French bullet holes in the ceiling. There's an ancient Roman arch to be seen, the citadel (where the Gorillaz played and I missed it – I don't want to talk about it). Then there's the Umayyad mosque. ...
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Surviving Syria
... were other people dressed in Bedouin robes. It was a film crew! They were probably filming a TV series and they were using the citadel as a backdrop. I wondered what CNN would make of all that. Another bloody battle on the streets of Syria. After ...
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Happy birthday to me: Four days in point form.
... - Hit the Citadel, which is up on a hill overlooking the old city. It's an interesting mix of ruins and reconstruction. The citadel is cool enough, but the main attraction is the view. Spent a fair amount of time admiring the view. - Came ...
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Syria
... gazing out over the city, most of the building's roofs were covered with satellite dishes in various conditions. Outside the Citadel was a display entitled 'Earth from Above' by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The display is a collection of photos ...
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Damascus & Deir Mar Musa
... heads, followed by more tears… at some point I really need to find out the specifics behind the event. After this we saw the Citadel, the gorgeous and tranquil Azem Palace, and a few churches and gift shops – one of which is run by an old ...
The Citadel Map
- Umayyad Mosque
- St Ananias Chapel
- Palmyra Museum
- Fortress Wall
- Hejaz Railway
- Mount Qassioun (Jebal Kasioun)
- Old City
- Parliament
- Saladin (Selahedīn) Mausoleum
- Saladin (Selahedīn) Statue
- Sayyida Ruqayya Mausoleum
- Souq al-Bizuriyyah (Sweet Souq)
- Souq Saroujah
- Apamea
- Takiyya Suleimaniah Souq
- Archaeological Park
- Tekiyeh Al-Suleimaniyeh
- Army Museum
- The Arc Gate
- Bimaristan an-Nuri