Four routes across the country, each one a sequence of places rather than a checklist — follow them as they are, or open one in the planner and make it yours.

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Aleppo

Citadel of Aleppo

Ancient Villages of Northern Syria

Church of Saint Simeon Stylites

4 days · 4 stops

The Limestone North

Aleppo → Dead Cities → Saint Simeon

Byzantine villages abandoned in the limestone massif, a citadel above the souqs, and the pilgrimage basilica built around a hermit's pillar.

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Damascus

Site of Palmyra

Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi

Resafa (Sergiopolis)

5 days · 4 stops

Caravans of the Desert

Damascus → Palmyra → Resafa

The old caravan line east: colonnaded streets in the oasis, an Umayyad hunting lodge, and a walled Byzantine city standing alone in the steppe.

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Latakia

Ugarit (Tell Shamra)

Qal'at Salah El-Din (Saladin Castle)

Crac des Chevaliers

4 days · 4 stops

Coast & Castles

Latakia → Ugarit → Crac des Chevaliers

Mediterranean light, the tablets that carried the first alphabet, and crusader walls holding the pass between sea and plain.

3 days · 3 stops

Valleys of Faith

Maaloula → Saydnaya → Yabrud

Aramaic still spoken in a cleft of the Qalamoun, monasteries on the ridgelines, and cave churches cut into the rock.

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Syria through your eyes

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