Safita Cham Palace Safita, Syria, Safita

Hotel: Safita Cham Palace Safita

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Safita Cham Palace Safita
Syria

Time Info:
Check in: 02:00 PM
Check out: 12:00 PM

Hotel description
The luxury hotel is located in the mountain town of Safita, overlooking the strolling valleys. It has 50 guest rooms, 17 suites and duplexes, all with private balconies. This ideal vacation retreat has a restaurant, a snack bar, the lobby bar, a dance club, banquet and meeting facilities up to 90 persons, Business center, Parking.
For a relaxation, a large outdoors swimming pool and sun terrace. This is the most charming mountain resort in Syria.

Dining:
· Al Burj Restaurant: Overlooking the wonderful valley of Safita, open all week days Oriental and occidental cuisine
· Le Terrace: Overlooking the wonderful valley of safita accommodate 400 persons
· Snack bar
· Dancing Club
· Banquet hall
· Meeting hall

Safita city is 240 km to the north of Damascus.Safita Cham Palace is located on the mountain enveloped by olive tree hills and strolling valley, and very close to the Gothic crusader fortresses of “Castle blanc” and the krak des Chevaliers. It’s the most charming mountain resort in Syria.SafitaVisible from both Krak Des Chevaliers and Tartous is the tower at Safita. This tower, which is located in the village of Safita is nearly the only part left of the Chastel Blanc of the Knights of the Templar. The Crusader fortress, which was part of the domains of the Count of Tripoli in 1112, was taken over by Nur Al Din and nearly completely demolished in 1167. After 1188 the knights Templar were given responsibility if this area and they reconstructed the fortress. It was then rebuilt and renovated again after the 1202 earthquake. In 1271 it fell to Baibars of the Mamelukes and the Knights were ordered by Tartous to evacuate. The watchtower is very typically blank with a few firing slits, but it is still in use as the town's main Greek Orthodox Church. It can be visited and it is possible to climb the steep steps up onto the roof, where the view is magnificent - it is possible to see Tartous and the Krak from here.

Krak des Chevaliers is a Crusader fortress in Syria and one of the most important preserved medieval military castles in the world. In Arabic, the fortress is called Qal'at al-Ḥiṣn , the word Krak coming from the Syriac karak, meaning fortress. It is located 30 km of the city of Safita, close to the border of Lebanon, Krak des Chevaliers was the headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller during the Crusades. It was expanded between 1150 and 1250 and eventually housed a garrison of 2,000. The inner curtain wall is up to 100 feet thick at the base on the south side, with seven guard towers 30 feet in diameter. King Edward I of England, while on the Ninth Crusade in 1272, saw the fortress and used it as an example for his own castles in England and Wales. The fortress was described as “perhaps the best preserved and most wholly admirable castle in the world” by T.E. Lawrence. This fortress was made a World Heritage Site, along with Qal’at Salah El-Din, in 2006 and is owned by the Syrian government. The fortress is one of the few sites where Crusader art (in the form of frescoes) has been preserved.

Husn Suleiman: About 20 Km away from Safita is Husn Suleiman, or the Temple of Zeus Baotocecian. This has been the center for cult worship since about 1000 years. The first temple built here was constructed by the Persians. The remains seen now date back to the Romans, although they still occupy the site of a Semitic or Canaanite temple set up for the worship of Baal. Baal was later merged with the Greek correspondent Zeus and was known as Zeus Baotocecian. What remains of the temple is of Roman construction and was built between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The flourishing of this cult was quite extraordinary, especially as Constantine had proclaimed Christianity as the religion of the empire.

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