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  • sunset from Djebel Qassoum, a mountain that surrounds the city. (In the picture 4 the Umaayyade Great Mosque upper left).
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  • the Umayyad Great Mosque, pilgrims.
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  • As' Sayidah Zeinab, where is buried the nephew of Mohammed prophet: is a very important religious place, over all for sciite pilgrims coming from Iran.
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  • bedouins-sheeperds in the desert near Palmyra
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  • Palmyra, the sunrise near the Great Columnade and monumental arch. In the background on the hill the arab fortress of Qalaat Ibn Maan, build by the druze prince Fakhr Ed Din.
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  • Palmyra, the Great Columnade, 1.200 meters long. Successful merchants were celebrated with statues mounted on the columns of this colonnade street. In the background on the hill the arab fortress of Qalaat Ibn Maan, build by the druze prince Fakhr Ed Din.
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  • Palmyra, the Great Columnade, 1.200 meters long. Successful merchants were celebrated with statues mounted on the columns of this colonnade street. In the background on the hill the arab fortress of Qalaat Ibn Maan, build by the druze prince Fakhr Ed Din.
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  • Palmyra, the Great Columnade, 1.200 meters long. Successful merchants were celebrated with statues mounted on the columns of this colonnade street.
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  • Palmyra, ruins of old Agorà.
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  • Palmyra, ruins of old Agorà.
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  • Palmyra, ruins of old Agorà.
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  • Palmyra, general view of the ruins, in the back the temple of Baal.
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  • Palmyra, grawe-tower of Elahbel (83 A.C.) with 4 of the 5 originals floors
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  • Palmyra, grawe-tower of Elahbel (83 A.C.), funerary sculpture.
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  • Bosra, many villagers still live near the ruins, utilising the Roman's old main street for their daily life.
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  • Bosra, the magnificent roman theatre (II° cent. A.C.), gives a idea of the sophisticated civilisation of the Hauran plain in the south of Syria. In the islamic period the theatre was enclosed within a formidable fortification.
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  • Bosra, the magnificent roman theatre (II° cent. A.C.), gives a idea of the sophisticated civilisation of the Hauran plain in the south of Syria. In the islamic period the theatre was enclosed within a formidable fortification.
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  • Bosra, the magnificent roman theatre (II° cent. A.C.), gives a idea of the sophisticated civilisation of the Hauran plain in the south of Syria. In the islamic period the theatre was enclosed within a formidable fortification.
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  • Shahba (the old Philippopolis), druze farmers with the harvest.
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  • The legendary crusader castle of Krak des chevaliers
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  • The legendary crusader castle of Krak des chevaliers
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  • The legendary crusader castle of Krak des chevaliers
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  • Aleppo, the "Citadel" owes its present appearance to the Ayyubids and Mamluks, but it was a stronghold <br />
occupied for thousands of years.
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  • Aleppo, the traditional suq.
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  • Aleppo, the traditional suq.
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  • Aleppo, the traditional suq.
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  • countryside east of Aleppo. Traditional life in a 200 year-old mud brick compound village.
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  • countryside east of Aleppo. Traditional life in a 200 year-old mud brick compound village.
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  • Great columnade of Apamea (III° B.C.), a  hellenistic city.
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  • Hama, the big "Nuriah", waterwheels for thousand of years.
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  • Hama, the big "Nuriah", waterwheels for thousand of years.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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