Syria · 18th century
The Azm Palace (Arabic: بيت العظم, Bayt al-ʿAẓm) is an 18th-century Ottoman-era palace in Hama, Syria at the center of the city on the banks of the Orontes River, about 400 meters (1,300 ft) south of the Hama Citadel. Ross Burns, author of Monuments of Syria (1999), reportedly considers the Azm Palace to be "one of the loveliest Ottoman residential buildings in Syria." The palace has been used as a regional archaeology museum since 1956.
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Azm Palace (Hama) ranks #3,649 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #21 of the 38 mapped in Syria. Founded 1742, it is older than 18% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 685 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Hama, 1 km away. It is one of the 105 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Levant. See how Syria compares in the castle statistics.
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