*SYRIA*_* 1

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria

 

Region: Western Asia

Coast Line: Meditteranean Sea

Area: 185,180km2

Capital: Damascus

 

Lattakia (The Great Sagittarius)

 

 

Lattakia

 

 

Tartus - Harbour View

 

 

Tartus

 

 

Tartus Cathedral (now Museum)

 

 

Maaloula

 

 

Maaloula-Convent of St. Thecla

 

 

Qasr Ibn Wardan

 

 

The Monastery of St. Moses the Abyssinian (Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi)

 

 

The desert castle Qasr al-Heir al-Shargi is the oldest fortified from early Islamic period in Syria

 

 

The St. Mary's Monastery of Sednaya

 one of the important places of pilgrimage for the minority of the Syrian Orthodox Christians