Els alfòndecs de Damasc vistos pels notaris i mercaders francs / The Funduqs of Damascus seen by Frankish Notaries and Merchants

Syria was a region much frequented by merchants and both travelogues and their Renaissance publishers usually excluded it from their accounts. However, there is extensive Late Medieval travel literature on journeys to Egypt and Syria thanks to the texts left by the pilgrims who went to the Holy Sepulchre. In the following pages, I will attempt to offer new information from atypical travellers, such as Latin notaries public, on the structures hosting European merchants in cities like Alexandria and, above all, Damascus.