المنشآت الخدمية والمناطق السياحية في دمشق .. كتاب في ربوع سورية

Service facilities and tourist areas in Damascus:

In addition to the archaeological facilities that attract tourists, Damascus contains many modern facilities that form centers that attract tourists from inside and outside the country, especially from Arab countries.

Damascus is rich in its beautiful gardens, which constitute an outlet for its children in all seasons of the year, especially in the summer half of the year. Among these gardens and public parks, we mention the Trade Garden known as Ibn al-Haytham Garden, the Mazraa Garden (Zaki al-Arsuzi Garden, the Peace Garden), al-Subki Garden (Zenobia Garden), Tishreen Garden, and Ibn Garden Hani', and Al-Jahiz Garden... along with many other small gardens scattered in the various neighborhoods of Damascus.
On the city of Damascus, where the asphalt road on its southern side is lined with various sales booths, and where there is a restaurant that serves a variety of foods, and from that upper road, the city of Damascus appears in its best form as it embraces its green Ghouta. The Monument of the Unknown Soldier on the road between Damascus and Palmyra (the mountain road) with the artificial green lawns surrounding it has become one of the areas of picnic and rest frequented by people from Damascus in the summer days to enjoy

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A person coming from outside Damascus does not stumble to find a place to live, whether for a few days or several months, as there are many furnished apartments that can be obtained through the many real estate offices spread in all the neighborhoods of Damascus. There are large numbers of hotels of different grades, with a total number of 158 hotels and furnished houses (15 furnished houses), with an estimated capacity of about 50 thousand people. Of these hotels, three are of international class with five stars (Sheraton, Le Meridien and Levant, and eight are of excellent class with four stars) Umayya, Plaza, Tishreen, Galaa, Damascus International, Semiramis, Omar Khayyam and Al Nakheel. Most of the hotels are concentrated in the regions of Marjeh and Al-Bahsa, in Al-Sinjaqadar, behind the Palace of Justice and Al-Hariqa, with the exception of luxury international hotels such as the Cham Hotel on Maysalun Street near the Salhia Gate, the Sheraton Hotel at the western end of the Umayyad Square, and the Meridian Hotel on Shukri Al-Quwatli Street.

There are no more than restaurants in the city of Damascus that offer customers various types of food. In addition to the luxurious restaurants found in international and excellent hotels, there are other large and famous restaurants, among the most famous of which is the Orient Club Restaurant, the most luxurious restaurant in Damascus, located in Zuqaq al-Sakhr.
And the Damascus Gardens International Restaurant, Al-Quwatli Street, Al-Reef Restaurant (Al-Midfa Park), Shaizar Restaurant (Airport Road), Abu Kamal Restaurant (Boubat Al-Salihiya), Al-Firdous Al-Jadeed (Dummar Road) and Al-Qasr (Dummar Road), Green Valley (Knoll), Zahrat Al-Kabwa and Green Island (Knoll). And the nights of Sham and Shadirwan (Knoll) ... and many more..

In addition to the aforementioned Al-Nawfara Cafe, there are nine other relatively modern cafes in Damascus spread outside Old Damascus, which are; Al-Hijaz Café (Al-Nasr Street), Rawdat Damascus (Al-Abed Street), Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (Al-Bahsa), Al-Kamal Al-Saifi (Al-Mutanabi Street), Al-Havana, Port Said and Ali Pasha Street (Al-Marjah), Al-Balour Palace (Al-Qasaa), Al-Darwishiyah Al-Darwishiyah Street, Al-Muhajireen (Bashkateb) ).

In Damascus, there are a large number of nightlife and nightclubs, which are not without a hotel of the international and excellent grades, in addition to the ranches designated for this, as in the Red Mill, Al-Jawhara, Samir Amis, Al-Karwan, the Wild Horse, Mawal, Scheherazade (Knoll), Layali Al-Sham, Al-Shadirwan (restaurant and night club), and Al-Qasr (restaurant and club). Lily) and ...etc.

In addition to the above, Damascus includes 14 cinemas, the most famous of which are: Al-Zahraa, Al-Sufara, Al-Kindi, Damascus, and Al-Sham. . . etc.

Damascus is famous for its streets, which most of them constitute important commercial markets, and among the most important streets we mention Al-Salihiya Street, Al-Hamra Street, Abu Rumana Street, Baghdad Street, Atta Al-Ayyubi Street, Al-Abed Street, Al-Nasr Street, Murshid Khater Street, Adnan Al-Maliki Street, Khaled Bin Al-Walid Street, Al-Quwatli Street And Revolution Street. . . etc.