Deir Sunbul

Deir Sunbul

Serjilla is one of the most complete Dead Cities of Jabal al-Zawiya, a Byzantine village of the 5th and 6th centuries that still has stone houses, a public bath, a guest hall, a church and olive presses.

Banin

An archaeological site in Banin. It dates from the Byzantine period. Banin is a village in Idlib governorate, about 24 km south of Idlib.

Al-Bara

Al-Bara is one of the largest Dead Cities, a town that prospered from the oil and wine trade in Byzantine times; its best-known remains are two pyramid-roofed tombs, several churches and presses among the olive groves.

Kafranbel

An archaeological site in Kafranbel. It dates from the Byzantine period. Kafranbel is a town in Idlib governorate, about 36 km south of Idlib.

Maarat al-Numan

A restaurant in Maarat al-Numan. Maarat al-Numan is a town about 30 km south of Idlib on the road between Aleppo and Hama, birthplace of the poet Abu al-Ala al-Maarri, with a mosaic museum in the Ottoman Khan Murad Pasha.

Maarat al-Numan

The Great Mosque of Maarat al-Numan is a 12th-century mosque topped by a square minaret from the end of that century, modelled on the minaret of the Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo; it was badly damaged in the fighting of 2016.