{"id":6838,"date":"2025-08-08T23:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/qasr-al-hayr-al-sharqi\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:16:20","slug":"qasr-al-hayr-al-sharqi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/qasr-al-hayr-al-sharqi\/","title":{"rendered":"Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi is located 120 km northeast of Palmyra and has been placed on the UNESCO Tentative List (file 1298). Built in 728 CE during the reign of al-Walid ibn Yazid, it is characterized by a square plan (200 x 200 meters) with an outer wall and an arched entrance topped with vine decorations. Inside the walls, there is a mosque with an octagonal courtyard and a deep well with a pulley opening, while a 16 km long aqueduct from Mount al-Balas feeds a garden with pistachio and fruit trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi is located 120 km northeast of Palmyra and has been placed on the UNESCO Tentative List (file 1298). Built in 728 CE during the reign of al-Walid ibn Yazid, it is characterized by a square plan (200 x 200 meters) with an outer wall and an arched entrance topped with vine decorations. Inside the walls, there is a mosque with an octagonal courtyard and a deep well with a pulley opening, while a 16 km long aqueduct from Mount al-Balas feeds a garden with pistachio and fruit trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,210],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-6838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castles-homs","category-homs","tag-partially-destroyed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}