Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi
Homs Governorate, Syria
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
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Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi is a mudbrick desert palace in Homs Governorate, Syria, about 80 km south-west of Palmyra on the Damascus road. Built in the Umayyad style by the caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik around 727 CE, it is the twin of Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi and served as a secondary residence rather than his primary one. Its remains preserve richly decorated floor frescoes, stucco walls and figural reliefs, many now held at the National Museum in Damascus.
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- Built
- Type
- palace, castle
- Materials
- mudbrick
- Place
- Homs Governorate, Syria
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