Routes
Tested itineraries, from half a day to a full week.
100 Routes
Latakia’s al-Kamiliyah quarter walk: from the National Museum to Baghdad Street
Three hours in Latakia’s al-Kamiliyah quarter: the National Museum in an old khan, a Mamluk prayer hall, the Evangelical Church, the serail and the Latin Church.
3 hours · 1 km · 5 stops · Easy
Ottoman Latakia on foot: from the Sheikh al-Maghribi Mosque to the Hamidiye Serail
Three hours in Ottoman Latakia: a Moroccan scholar’s mosque, two mosques of 1727, a wheat khan on Roman columns, the Al-Bazar Mosque and the 1905 serail.
3 hours · 1.4 km · 6 stops · Easy
Churches of Old Latakia walk: from St Nicholas to the Latin Church
Five churches of four communities in central Latakia on foot: St Nicholas, the Armenian church, St George’s Cathedral, the Evangelical and the Latin Church.
2.5 hours · 1.2 km · 5 stops · Easy
Homs Old City churches walk: from the National Evangelical Church to Sibat al-Qadi
Five stops in Old Homs: a rebuilt Evangelical church, Father Frans van der Lugt’s grave, Our Lady of Peace, Umm al-Zunnar and the Sibat al-Qadi passage.
3 hours · 0.9 km · 5 stops · Easy
Hama’s water trail: from the Hama Museum to the Muhammadiyya noria
Follow the Orontes through Hama: the museum’s noria display, the riverside waterwheels, the Great Mosque and the 21-metre Muhammadiyya wheel that once fed it.
4 hours · 2 km · 5 stops · Easy
Hama riverside walk: Khan As’ad Pasha to the Kilaniyya Bridge and al-Izzi Mosque
A half-day walk in Hama from two Ottoman khans on al-Murabit Street, past the Azm Palace and al-Nuri Mosque, over the Kilaniyya Bridge to the al-Izzi Mosque.
3.5 hours · 2.1 km · 6 stops · Easy
Aleppo from Citadel Square to al-Jalloum: Matbakh al-Ajami, the Sharafiyya and the Kawakibi foundation
A three-hour walk from Aleppo’s Citadel Square to al-Jalloum: the 1933 Serail site, Matbakh al-Ajami, the Sharafiyya, the 1583 Bahramiyah and a Mamluk hospital.
3 hours · 2.3 km · 6 stops · Easy
Aleppo’s Farafira and Suwayqat Ali: Mamluk khans, an Ottoman madrasa and Nasimi’s tomb
A three-hour walk from the Aleppo Citadel to Bab al-Nasr: Khan Khayr Bek of 1514, the Sha’baniyya madrasa, the Khanqah al-Farafira of 1237 and Nasimi’s tomb.
3 hours · 2 km · 7 stops · Easy
Aleppo’s Bayyada quarter: from the Citadel to Bab al-Hadid
A two-hour walk through Aleppo’s Bayyada quarter: the al-Hamawi Mosque of 1560, a bath house of 1450, al-Sarawi of 1378, Kiltawiyya hill and Bab al-Hadid.
2 hours · 2 km · 6 stops · Easy
Aleppo’s Bab al-Nairab quarter: from Otrush Mosque to Badinjk
A two-hour walk in Aleppo from the carved Al-Otrush Mosque past the site of Bab al-Nairab to two mosques outside the walls, the Al-Turantaiyah and the Badinjk.
2 hours · 1.4 km · 5 stops · Easy
Aleppo from Bab al-Hadid to Suleimaniyeh: the churches of Hamidiyeh and Suleimaniyeh
A three-hour walk in Aleppo from Bab al-Hadid to Suleimaniyeh: Saint George’s of 1836, the Qastal al-Harami Mosque of 1461, Montligeon, Saint Barbara’s and more.
3 hours · 2.9 km · 6 stops · Easy
Aleppo from Bab al-Faraj to al-Aqaba: the Mevlevi lodge, two gates and the city’s oldest hill
A walk of two and a half hours in Aleppo from the Bab al-Faraj clock tower past the Mevlevi lodge and two gates to al-Aqaba, the hill where the city first grew.
2.5 hours · 1.3 km · 7 stops · Easy
