Featured places
Mosques, caravanserais, souks, museums — and why they are worth the walk.
5 Places
Lady of the Valley Statue, Valley of the Christians
A 30 m statue of the Virgin Mary on the 980 m summit of Jabal al-Sayih above al-Nasirah, in the Valley of the Christians near Krak des Chevaliers. Opened in 2009.
Homs · Modern — 2009
Tell Tamer
The Khabur town founded in the 1930s by Assyrians from Iraq, hub of their riverside villages. What the name means, how the villages began, 2015 and what is left.
Hasakah · 20th century · Assyrian settlement
Noria al-Muhammadiyya, Hama
The older of Hama’s two giant waterwheels: 21 metres across, 120 buckets and a 1361 inscription. Built to water the Great Mosque, and still on the Orontes.
Hama · Mamluk
The Battle of al-Kafr Memorial
At al-Kafr on 22 July 1925, Sultan al-Atrash’s horsemen broke a French column in half an hour. The site and memorial of the clash that began the Great Syrian Revolt.
As-Suwayda · French Mandate
Qadam Railway Station
The basalt Hejaz railway station on the southern edge of Damascus. Its workshops made it the city’s working rail hub, and it was badly damaged in 2013.
Damascus · Ottoman — Hejaz railway
