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Barad

by Hani Simo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Barad

Barad is a mountainous village located northwest of Aleppo in northern Syria. The area contains several old churches, an ancient monastery, a large public bathhouse, five warehouses, meeting house, a magistrate's residence, a tetrapylon, two monasteries and a cathedral. Most of these date from the Byzantine period. Barad was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of Ancient Villages of Northern Syria in 2011.