Editing Damascus (section)

===Walls and gates of Damascus===
[[File:Bab Touma Gate Damascus.jpg|thumb|[[Bab Tuma]] gate]]
The Old City of Damascus with an approximate area of 86.12 hectares<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/20 |title=Ancient City of Damascus |publisher=[[UNESCO]] |access-date=31 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027161431/http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/20/ |archive-date=27 October 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> is surrounded by ramparts on the northern and eastern sides and part of the southern side. There are seven extant city gates, the oldest of which dates back to the Roman period. These are, clockwise from the north of the citadel:
* [[Bab al-Faradis]] ("the gate of the orchards", or "of the paradise")
* [[Bab al-Salam]] ("the gate of peace"), all on the north boundary of the Old City
* [[Bab Tuma]] ("Touma" or "Thomas's Gate") in the north-east corner, leading into the Christian quarter of the same name,
* [[Bab Sharqi]] ("eastern gate") in the east wall, the only one to retain its Roman plan
* [[Bab Kisan]] in the south-east, from which tradition holds that Saint Paul made his escape from Damascus, lowered from the ramparts in a basket; this gate has been closed and turned into [[Chapel of Saint Paul]] marking this event,
* [[Bab al-Saghir]] (The Small Gate)
* [[Bab al-Jabiya]] at the entrance to Souk Midhat Pasha, in the southwest.
Other areas outside the walled city also bear the name "gate": [[Bab al-Faraj (Damascus)|Bab al-Faraj]], [[Bab Mousalla]] and [[Bab Sreija]], both to the south-west of the walled city.