Ḩarastā
Harasta, also known as Harasta al-Basal or Hirista, is a town and northeastern suburb of Damascus, Rif Dimashq, Syria.
Harasta, also known as Harasta al-Basal or Hirista, is a town and northeastern suburb of Damascus, Rif Dimashq, Syria. Harasta has an altitude of 702 meters. It has a population of 34,184 as of 2007, making it the 43rd largest city per geographical entity in Syria.
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Worth seeing in and around Ḩarastā
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01October War Panorama
The October War Panorama is a National museum located in Damascus, Syria which commemorates the memory of the 1973 October War between Egypt and Syria against Israel from a Syrian perspective, and the 1982 Lebanon War battles that were fought against Israel.
5.4 km · National museum in Damascus, Syria · Wikipedia - 02Higher Institute for Applied Science and Technology
The Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology is center of excellence for higher education, research & development in Damascus, Syria. It is linked to the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center.
5.2 km · University in Damascus, Syria · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ḩarastā
- Airports
- Damascus (DAM), 22 km · Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 86 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 181 km
- Aleppo → Ḩarastā303 km · quickest by air, 4h 40m · $170–250
- Beirut → Ḩarastā88 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · $9–13
- Amman → Ḩarastā183 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · JD8–11
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ḩarastā
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ḩarastā. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Ḩarastā
Ḩarastā is 9 km from Damascus, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.