Homs is located in Castle Hill height of 32 m. And two towers return to the Ayyubid and the rest of the fortifications back to the Mamluk and Ottoman Covenants. And played castle role prominent in history especially in the era of the two zinc and Ayyubid and Mamluk and Wall Homs, which has had seven gates disappeared, and a group of mosques archaeological Such as collector Dalati and Mosque of the Caliph Omar bin Abdul Aziz (and where his grave) and the Mosque of Abu Dhar al-Ghafari, the months mosques at all It collector Sahaabi Khalid bin Walid, may Allah be pleased with him and where his tomb and the Great Mosque of Nouri was a pagan temple and then turned after the Islamic conquest to a mosque repaired and renewed by King Zanki Mahmoud Nour Eddin he carried his name (Nouri).
Centered around this mosque famous spa in addition to many markets and fields of old, and in Homs group ancient churches, including the Church is still their list in the neighborhood of Al-Zahrawi dating back to the third century AD and Church of Our Lady or girdle and date back building structure to the fifth century AD. The effects in the cities of Homs are too many of them Palmyra desert famous In the Talkalakh Krak des Chevaliers and Deir Majirjis and Faouar Bible In the short hill Prophet since the mills, bridges and arches in the area Rastan Caves archaeological and canals Roman and cellar white In the openwork Palace Alhandvian.
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