Discover Syria
Dream

Ten places, one country that stays with you.

Read before you go. Each destination page tells the history, the best months, what to see and how we get you there.

Damascus
Aleppo and the northAleppoThe citadel on its hill, the covered souks rising from the rubble, and the best food in the country. Aleppo is coming back on its own terms.
Bosra
The southBosraA Roman theatre wrapped in a medieval fortress, built of black basalt. The south of Syria in one afternoon.
Damascus
Damascus and aroundDamascusThe oldest continuously inhabited capital on earth. Courtyard houses, the Umayyad Mosque and a souk that never quite closes.
Latakia
The centreHamaWooden waterwheels groaning on the Orontes, a riverside promenade and the quietest old town in Syria.
Krak des Chevaliers
The centreKrak des ChevaliersThe crusader castle T. E. Lawrence called the finest in the world. Two rings of walls on a hill above the Homs Gap.
Maalula
The coastLatakiaThe port city where Syria goes to the beach. Corniche cafés, Ugarit where the alphabet was born, and pine forests above the sea.
Hama
Damascus and aroundMaalulaA village wedged into a cliff where people still speak the language of Jesus. Two monasteries, one narrow gorge, an hour from Damascus.
Palmyra
The centrePalmyraA caravan city in the desert, its colonnade still standing after everything. Go for the silence at sunrise.
Maalula
The coastTartusA crusader cathedral turned museum, an old town built inside the fortress walls, and the island of Arwad a short boat ride out.
Hama
The centreWadi al-NasaraThe Valley of the Christians below the Krak: thirty villages, vineyards, a monastery with a view and long lunches on the terrace.