One day in Tadmur, Syria

A day through Tadmur’s best-known sights that lie close together: Palmyra, Tower of Elahbel, Lion of Al-lāt and Fakhr-al-Din al-Maani Castle. 4 stops, about 1.8 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. PalmyraArchaeological site · On the map
  2. Tower of ElahbelMonument · 0.1 km on from Palmyra · On the map
  3. Lion of Al-lātStatue · 0.7 km on from Tower of Elahbel · On the map
  4. Fakhr-al-Din al-Maani CastleCastle · 1.1 km on from Lion of Al-lāt · On the map

4 stops, about 1.8 km between them in straight lines.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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