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Forgotten Places

Sites that slipped out of the guidebooks and never came back.

Historic Damascene Houses, Syria
Hidden gem

Historic Damascene Houses

Courtyards, fountains and citrus trees

Old Damascus · Damascus

Old City Gates of Aleppo, Syria
UNESCOHidden gem

Old City Gates of Aleppo

Where the walls opened

Old Aleppo · Aleppo

Ancient Villages of Northern Syria, Syria
UNESCOHidden gem

Ancient Villages of Northern Syria

The Dead Cities

Saint Simeon Region · Aleppo

Apamea, Syria
Hidden gem

Apamea

A colonnade nearly two kilometres long

Qalaat al-Madiq · Hama

Shayzar Castle, Syria
Hidden gem

Shayzar Castle

A ridge above the Orontes

Shayzar · Hama

Ras Ibn Hani, Syria
Hidden gem

Ras Ibn Hani

A Bronze Age site on the shore

Latakia · Latakia

Serjilla, Syria
UNESCOHidden gem

Serjilla

A late-antique village still standing

Serjilla · Idlib

Al-Bara, Syria
UNESCOHidden gem

Al-Bara

Pyramid tombs among the olives

Jabal Zawiya · Idlib

Jabal Zawiya, Syria
Hidden gem

Jabal Zawiya

The limestone massif

Jabal Zawiya · Idlib

Harim Castle, Syria
Hidden gem

Harim Castle

A fortified mound in the north-west

Harim · Idlib

Hauran Plain, Syria
Hidden gem

Hauran Plain

Wheat, basalt and old villages

Hauran Plain · Daraa

Qanawat, Syria
Hidden gem

Qanawat

Temples among oak and water

Qanawat · As-Suwayda

Salkhad, Syria
Hidden gem

Salkhad

A crater-top citadel

Salkhad · As-Suwayda

Al-Rusafa (Resafa), Syria
Hidden gem

Al-Rusafa (Resafa)

A walled desert pilgrimage city

Al-Rusafa · Raqqa

Dura-Europos, Syria
Hidden gem

Dura-Europos

A frontier city above the river

Al-Salihiyah · Deir ez-Zor

Halabiye, Syria
Hidden gem

Halabiye

Byzantine walls at a river gorge

Halabiye · Deir ez-Zor

Khabur Valley, Syria
Hidden gem

Khabur Valley

The river of the northeast

Khabur Valley · Al-Hasakah

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