| Page Views: 1,801 Last Visit to Damascus: December, 2003 | Christmas in Damascus by xaver - last update: Jan 5, 2004 |
| Sayyida Ruqayya Mausoleum |
Awfully I spent in this beautiful town just one day and it was definitly enough to make me wish to come back to explore more this great city and the all country.
I came here on Christmas from Beirut.This year I wanted a santa free Christmas, but, once in Beirut I had a bad surprise, big Christmas tree on the main square with a lot of teen dancing and singing wearing their Santa's hats, that made me think: where am I?
So I decided to spend the day after(25) in Damascus and, going around the city centre and entering the main mosques, I had my day.
Christmas is not celebrated there and it was incredible to see how deep concentration and how much passion those people put in their prayers inside their holy temples, did not see the same passion even in our shopping centres during the Christmas delirious. |
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| Pros: | "Old welcoming holy city" | | Cons: | "Traffic and so on" | | In A Nutshell: | "A really charming amazing city!" |
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Nemorino Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:24 UTC
It's good to know there is at least one place in the world where it is possible to have a Santa-free Christmas. | volopolo Sat Jul 12, 2008 14:23 UTC
The famous ancient city in the world! Hope that i have the change in my life to be here one day! | SLLiew Tue Oct 16, 2007 18:39 UTC
The mosques in Damascus look magnificent. Nice page here. | globetrott Sun Mar 4, 2007 11:11 UTC
another interesting page about a place that is still missing on my map :-(( |
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