Maaloula

Rif Dimashq Governorate · Syria

Maaloula, Syria
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
April to June
Budget
$
Accessibility
not-accessible
Coordinates
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A cliffside town northeast of Damascus where Aramaic is still spoken and monasteries are cut into the rock. Pastel houses climb a gorge below the shrines of Saint Thecla and Saints Sergius and Bacchus.

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