Riga Palace Hotel

Aleppo

The Baron Hotel is one of the oldest hotels in Syria, opened in 1911 by the Armenian Mazloumian family on Baron Street in central Aleppo; its guests included T. E. Lawrence and Agatha Christie. It closed during the war years, and its building remains one of the city's landmarks.

Aleppo

A hotel in Aleppo, about 200 m from the National Museum of Aleppo. Aleppo is Syria's second-largest city and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

Aleppo

A hotel in Aleppo, about 100 m from the National Museum of Aleppo. Aleppo is Syria's second-largest city and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

Aleppo

A hotel in Aleppo, about 100 m from the National Museum of Aleppo. Aleppo is Syria's second-largest city and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

Aleppo

A fast-food restaurant in Aleppo, about 300 m from the National Museum of Aleppo. It serves falafel. Aleppo is Syria's second-largest city and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

Aleppo

The National Museum of Aleppo is one of the largest museums in Syria, showing finds from sites of northern Syria and Mesopotamia such as Mari, Ebla, Ugarit, Tell Halaf and Arslan Tash, from prehistory to the Islamic period. Its façade is decorated with copies of the giant basalt statues from the entrance of the Tell Halaf palace.