Palmyra is perhaps Syria's major tourist attraction. Although it is thought to have been founded some four thousand years ago, very little of its history is known until the times of the Roman Empire and because of its mythical Queen, Zenobia, who led the city and its empire from 266 A.D. until her fall in 272...
   

tales about Syria
A storytelling on the most beautiful places of Syria
   
discover Syria
A more infomative section about the most beautiful places of Syria
 
 

Welcome to the new section “Discover Syria” of the Syrian Ministry of Tourism's web site.

In this section you can discover some of the beautiful cultural and tourist attractions of Syria. For every site, you have the oppotunity to chose to listen to and watch Tales about..., a series of narrations which can also be called storytelling. Navigate manually or automatically through the application, getting a short, but exhaustive, overview, or go through all the content, letting the narration go on, or choosing the details you prefer. You can also comfortably sit and listen to all the interesting stories about Syria, as if you were listening to a guide.

Otherwise you are offered Discover Syria , an informative section , based on images and text, divided into 5 main topics (The Place, History, Culture, Visiting Today and Surroundings). The content may be also explored through pathways, or cultural itineraries.
 
 
For centuries, Saint Simeon was a high place of Christianity in Syria and drew thousands and thousands of pilgrims and worshipers of the Saint. The young shepherd Simeon became a stylite, a man who lived his Christianity by self inflicting the incredible punishment of having to live perched on top of a 25 metre high column for 36 years. By doing this, he drew growing crowds of pilgrims and worshipers...
 
 
The Dead cities are a strange and fascinating place: rolling hills, clumps of brownish grey rocks everywhere and, in between - generally in the low lands - plots of land with a carefully cultivated dark brown soil. And, suddenly, a dead city appears around a curve…This network of Byzantine villages also called “Dead cities” is, in fact, one of the most extraordinary archaeological sites in the world...