Routes
Tested itineraries, from half a day to a full week.
58 Routes
A second walk in Palmyra: from the Baths of Diocletian to the Funerary Temple
A second half-day walk in Palmyra: the granite-columned baths, the Temple of Nabu, the agora with 11 gates and the only tomb inside the walls. Four stops, timed.
3 hours · 1.1 km · 4 stops · Easy
Mamluk mosques of Qanawat: from al-Tawrizi to al-Tawusiyya
An 1800-metre walk west of the Damascus walls past four Mamluk mosques: Tankiz of 1317, al-Tawusiyya of 1382, al-Tawrizi of 1420 and al-Shadhbakiyya of 1453.
2.5 hours · 1.8 km · 4 stops · Easy
Through Souq Saruja: from Jawdat al-Hashimi School to the Tomb of Ibn al-Muqaddam
A 2700-metre walk across Souq Saruja, north of the Damascus walls: the city’s first state secondary school, a Mamluk bath, a leather souq, a cemetery, a 1201 tomb.
4 hours · 2.7 km · 6 stops · Easy
Souqs on both sides of the Citadel: Sarujiyya, Asruniyya and Khan al-Muradiyya
A half-day walk around the Citadel of Damascus: saddlers below its west wall, copper sellers facing its east wall, then Khan al-Muradiyya and the Umayyad Mosque.
3 hours · 0.9 km · 5 stops · Easy
The west end of Straight Street: from Khan al-Dikka to Khan al-Zafaraniyya
A half-day walk in Damascus along the covered west end of Straight Street: four khans, a Mamluk minaret and a bathhouse turned souq, all within half a kilometre.
3 hours · 0.5 km · 6 stops · Easy
Tombs from Abu Rummaneh to Salihiyya: Farrukh Shah to Ibn Salama al-Raqqi
A walk of nearly three kilometres in Damascus, from Abu Rummaneh up to Salihiyya: Ayyubid and Mamluk tombs dated 1182 to 1322, a madrasa of 1214 and a park break.
3 hours · 3 km · 6 stops · Easy
Aleppo’s consulate khans: from Khan al-Wazir to Khan al-Jumruk
A half-day walk in the Aleppo souq through six khans, tracing where Venetian, English and French consuls lived, from the treaty of 1207 to Khan al-Jumruk.
3 hours · 0.8 km · 6 stops · Easy
From al-Jdayde to al-Almaji: Hokedun, the wool souq and Burdbek’s two fountains
Half a day in Aleppo from Jdayde to al-Almaji: the Armenian pilgrims’ khan, the wool souq, Al-Hatab Square and two works of Burdbek dated 1461 and 1491.
4 hours · 1.6 km · 6 stops · Easy
Inside Bab Qinnasrin: Aleppo’s southwest quarter from the Bimaristan to al-Rumi Mosque
A short walk inside Bab Qinnasrin in Aleppo: a Mamluk hospital of 1354, a khan of 1450, a mosque with a footprint stone, the gate itself and al-Rumi Mosque.
3.5 hours · 1.3 km · 5 stops · Easy
Ottoman Damascus, last chapters: from the Takiyya Sulaymaniyya to Saladin’s Mausoleum
A 2200-metre walk across Damascus, seven stops: the grave of the last Ottoman sultan, the Hejaz Railway Station, a mosque in the Citadel wall, the aviators of 1914.
3 hours · 2.2 km · 7 stops · Easy
Madrasa Street in al-Salihiyya, Damascus: from al-Sahiba Madrasa to the Mausoleum of Amat al-Latif
About 1800 metres downhill through al-Salihiyya in Damascus, ten stops: madrasas founded by Ayyubid women, Ibn Arabi’s tomb and a 13th-century minaret.
3 hours · 1.8 km · 10 stops · Easy
Outside the walls of Damascus: from al-Qassaa and the Holy Cross Church to Bab Touma
A 90-minute, 1200-metre walk outside the old walls of Damascus: al-Qassaa Street, the Holy Cross Church finished in 1932, Sheikh Raslan Cemetery and Bab Touma.
1.5 hours · 1.2 km · 4 stops · Easy
