A honey-coloured stone city stacked up a hillside above the Mesopotamian plain, with monasteries, medreses and a thousand-year mix of faiths.
Walk the stepped lanes and terraces of the old city, with the plain stretching to Syria below.
Two medieval religious schools with carved stone portals and courtyards, the Kasımiye with its reflecting pool.
A twelfth-century mosque with a tall minaret, the landmark of the skyline.
A Syriac Orthodox monastery founded 1,500 years ago, still home to monks, ten minutes from the city.
The ruins of a Byzantine fortress city with rock-cut cisterns and a necropolis, 30 kilometres east.
A town of stone mansions and silversmiths an hour away, with the Mor Gabriel monastery nearby.
Finds from the plain in a restored mansion, with a terrace view.
Coppersmiths, soap makers and silver filigree in the covered market below the main street.
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