Maalula Barada Valley Shahba & Sweida Bosra & Izraa Crac Chevaliers Shahba About 80 km. from Damascus, Shahba is the village which contains the ruins of ancient Philippopolis named after one of the emperors Syria gave to Rome-Philip the Arab (244-249). It is divided by the two main perpendicular streets into four sectors making four quarters. A small museum, a Roman theater and the sight of country life, in a surrealistic scenery of wreck and field labour, will satisfy the romantics. Sweida A short stop at the foot of the Djebel Druze (or more officially Djebel El-Arab) at Sweida, 20 km. from Shahba, will be on your program. You will take your lunch following the visit to a museum where almost the totality of exhibited sculptures betray by their rustic and unusual execution the physical characteristics particular to the Hauran.
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