Souq Al Hamidiyeh (Damascus - دمشق)

The most well known shopping centre in Syria and the most popular. It follows a straight line from the west ,where Bab al-Nasr used to be, to the Omayyad Mosque. It dates back to 1863, to the rule of the Ottaman Sultan Abdul-Hamid, after whom the souq was called. What appears to be small white lights on the roof like stars are actually bullet holes from the French when Syria was one of their colonies.