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Beit Wakil Hotel Description BeitWakil,a true example of the distinguished 16th. century Aleppine architecture,is a charming palace situated just outside the old city walls. The beautiful courtyards with breathtaking relief and tracery work of their walls, the marble fountains among the jasemine and lemon trees, the unique liwan with its majestic arch and coloures marble flooring,the elegant arabesque woodwork of the wall cupboards,the hand drawn wooden ceilings with corniches, the fomous central Quaa (room)with its suspended dome and coloured arabesque glass windows,the stonebuilt cellars and the lime stone caves below with a labyrinth of tunnels , one of which , links the palace to the Citadel of Aleppo , are just few of the many elements which distingushes the Aleppine masonary art and Arabian architectural genius
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