Pilgrimage tours often stay one or more nights in Aleppo, and tour through sights within the city. Tours always include a visit to the Citadel, where the prophet Abraham supposedly milked his cow. Other venues frequently visited include the Grand Mosque, the city's museum, the city's old quarters, Marionite and Armenian churches, and the marketplace.
Pilgrimage tours in the Middle East also visit many ancient attractions within a day's journey of Aleppo. Some tours stop at Saidnaya Convent, which contains a painting of the Virgin Mary reportedly painted by Luke The Evangelist. Other stops include ruins of Christian communities dating back to the seventh century, the Church of St. Simeon, the remains of the Palmyra oasis, the Euphrates River, and Damascus.
Tour companies arranging pilgrimage tours that stop at Aleppo include Pilgrim Tours, which offers a tour that starts in Cairo and ends in Damascus, with stops in Jordan and Lebanon; Indus Tours, whose Christian Pilgrimage tour starts and ends in Damascus; and Orpheus Tours, which offers a 10 day tour devoted just to Syria.
