الاثنين، 19 مارس 2012

Tourism in Homs / Syria

Homs is a province located in central Syria, where the largest province, its capital and largest city of the ancient city of Homs, the most important urban center of Syria .. Experienced by the Orontes River, which is an important natural resource for cities, villages and towns of this province that the diversity of the terrain between the plains and mountains and valleys and the desert.

Tracing for the province of Homs, a lot of cities, towns and regions, including the famous archeological city of Palmyra km from the center of the province About one hundred and sixty kilometers

History over here since ancient times in the city of Homs and in all parts of the province spread a lot of effects and the number of the most important archeological sites and historic monasteries and castles such as Castle fort ancient, one of the most beautiful Crusader castles in the world, and mediates the provincial capital Castle Osama (Castle Homs) and by a number much of the historical ruins and buildings, churches and mosques such as the Church or mosque girdle and Khalid bin Waleed and Patriarchal Monastery of St. George and the Kingdom of cotton, Cadiz and the short-Zahrawi and spas in the area Aburabah and other ruins and ruins and raised too many.
 
This is in addition to the capital of ancient city of Palmyra Palmyra famous Bowabdha and raised
 .The area of ​​the province of Homs 42,226 square kilometers and a population up to 2 million people .... And lives in the province of Homs, a mixture of sects of Islam, Christianity, homogeneous and mixed with a very dense, the largest Syrian provinces in terms of area, ranked third in terms of population after the province of Damascus and Aleppo and extends the territory of the province in all directions and is bordered by the provinces of Hama, north of Tartous and Lebanon to the west and Damascus from the south and Deir Al-Zour and tenderness the east, Iraq and Jordan to the south-east a large area of the province in all directions from the mountains and forests to the banks of the Orontes River to the fertile plains to the desert

Homs with its unique location where the center of the most important areas in Syria from the Mediterranean and the Syrian coast, mountains, forests and the desert in the east and Nehraasa and the spread effects of the many and historic areas, castles and forts and the beauty of nature scenery in the areas of Homs and Resorts wonderful, springs and waterfalls and prosperity of the large and its corridor of the cities of many in the north and west of Syria and the excellence and richness of its markets especially in the central city of Homs made ​​it a great summer in the areas of towns and Massaifaa where there are hotels, restaurants, parks, unique in all areas of the province in the city of Homs and is held in the cities and regions of the province of Homs, a lot of festivals, among them
 o Cultural Artistic Festival of Homs and Homs, hosted by the City Council
o Tourism and Shopping Festival hosted by the Council and the city of Homs
o destroy the tourist and festival hosted by the province of Homs
o Festival of the Silk Road in Palmyra and Balastrk which will be held with the cities of Damascus and Aleppo
o Festival of the castle and the valley of the culture and the arts in the area of ​​Castle Valley Alhsno Christians (Carnival and Carnival Mmermrita Rabah)
o Festival of Homs, literary and cultural Hair
o festivals in different cities of the province

Homs is also characterized by villages, especially Western ones climates beautiful and fresh air are packed with summer holidaymakers and expatriates returning home and recreation in, tourist sites of the city of Palmyra and the Krak des Chevaliers

Krak des Chevaliers castle is located within the Syrian coast mountain ranges in the province of Homs and from Homs, about 60 km.
 
· Given the historical and architectural importance of the fort was considered by the UNESCO historic castle important because they contain a great human heritage, and in 2006 recorded a castle on the World Heritage List.

Built a fort Almerdacin in 1031 of the Cub state Nasr ibn Boumerdes sued the fortress was young, designed to protect the caravan route of trade from the coast of the Levant into the Levant. And Osknoha Kurds to protect the road, and therefore bore the name of Fort Kurds, also called Fort slope or forgiveness and Karak this name is derived the name of the Crusader castle
 

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