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Tourist Attractions in Damascus City, Al-Hejaz

Total: 10

Damascus National Museum

Tourist Attractions, Damascus City

Damascene Landmarks, Museums

Damascus National Museum moved to its present location in 1936 during the FrenchMandate. Previously the museum was hosted in The Great Al-Madrasa Al-Adiliya. Boasting the original gateway of an ancient Umayyad Palace as its façade, Damascus National Museum contains some of the world’s most important artefacts....

Al-Tekiya Al-Suleimaniya

Tourist Attractions, Damascus City

Tekkiyes (Old Resting Quarters)

The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent commissioned this 16th century complx. Al-Tekiya Al-Suleimaniya used to serve as a school, a mosque and a kitchen distributing food to the pilgrims heading from Anatolia to Mecca. Designed by the famous Ottoman architect Sinan, Al-Tekiya Al-Suleimaniya was built on the site where the palace of the Mamluk Sultan Baibars used to stand before being destroyed by Timurlenk. Today, this beautiful monument is host to the National War Museum as well as the Handicrafts Bazaar....

Al-Marjeh Square

Tourist Attractions, Damascus City

Damascene Landmarks, Damascene Neighbourhoods

Marjeh, or “Pasture” in Arabic, is the name given to this important square becaue it was built on what was once an open pasture on the outskirts of the Old City Wall. It is also known as the “Martyrs’ Square” because many Syrian nationalists opposing the Ottoman occupation of Syria were executed there in 1916....

Al-Hejaz Railway Station

Tourist Attractions, Damascus City

Old Railway

Built in 1907 under the Ottoman governor Nazem Pasha, the station is not currenty operational but used instead as museum about the Hejaz Railway Line....

Damascus University

Tourist Attractions, Damascus City

Damascene Landmarks

The main buildings of Damascus University were built as army barracks in 1910 uner the Ottoman governor of Damascus Nazem Pasha. In 1923 during the French Mandate, the buildings were turned into the main premises of Damascus University, which at that time included the faculties of law and medicine and the institute for Arabic studies and archaeology....

The Handicrafts Bazaar

Tourist Attractions, Damascus City

Souqs (Markets)

This beautiful market specialises in selling many Syrian traditional handicrafts products and is very popular with tourists. The market is part of Al-Tekiya Al-Suleimaniya....