Alepo (Aleppo), in Arab Halab or in Turk Halep is the second city of Syria after Damascus and according to some sources the most ancient city of the world inhabited permanently. It is a city of Syrian tourism and Moslem tourism, but as it happens in general in Syria it is still beginning being opened for the western tourism. It is in the north of Syria, to half I walk in the highway that joins the Euphrat with the Mediterranean Sea.
Perhaps it is not the most ancient city of the world, although his inhabitants like that affirm it. What is sure that it is a question of the cities permanently inhabited more ancient than the world and for it it is no wonder that his streets, zocos and monuments breathe history for every pore.
The first historical reference that has of Alepo byline of 1.780 B.C. capital of the kingdom of Yamhad, a confederacy of cities and villages joined by the common interests tied to the control of the commercial routes between the peninsula of Anatolia, Mesopotamia and the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Later it came across of the Hititas, about 1.600 B.C., after the Hurritas, the Egyptians and once again of the Hititas. Invasions that Byzantine and Moslem ones continued for the Macedonians, Roman, between others.
At the end of the post I leave a pair of linkage to you on the history of Aleppo and his conquerors, because it might spend pages and pages to me explaining it. Not in vain there is the most ancient inhabited city of the world or less of Occident. What is sure is that if the ancient city of Palmira is the most outstanding archaeological part of Syria, Alepo is undoubtedly the city to know the current form of life in Syria, it is also the most industrialized city of the country.
One of the things that attracted attention of us is the quantity of Syrian tourists and in general of the Moslem world that we could see for the city, in contrast with the western few ones. You can see in the photo that was not rare to see women with burka doing tourism and photos with the mobile in the interest points like the Citadel.
In the following photo you can see one of the numerous zocos of the Medina. In the center of the city there is a labyrinthine complex of zocos silverware that are one of the big tourist attractions of the city of Alepo. From our trips blog we recommend these zocos to do the buys, since they are much better and more authentic than those of Damascus.
Since we have commented on Alepo it is the most industrialized city of Syria and when we see it from above there does not stop being curious the miscellany of minarets and of satellite dishes that pack the roofs and roofs of the city.
Photo of the satellite dishes in the roofs of the city of Alepo, Arab Republic of Syria.
The Big Mosque of Aleppo was erected in 1214 and one of his characteristics it is his square minaret, which we can see in the following photo. It is possible to begin to visit and to photograph, but it is necessary to remember that the man they must take long pants and the women will have to go covered and with veil. Nevertheless in the different earnings of the big mosque it is possible to take given veils to be adapted to the clothing. Since we always recommend the maximum respect for the persons who realize the cult in the mosque.
The citizens of Syria. In our trip to Syria and Jordan we could notice an important difference and we must emphasize it kind that were the Syrians with us. It is necessary to remember that his customs and beliefs are different from our own ones and be shared or it is not necessary to respect them. But in general the Syrians accept the differences and when you comment on some "incorrectness" indicate it to you with a smile.
In the top photo we can see a loom een the Zoco of the Craftsmen of Alepo, and next we can see a video of the loom in functioning.
The City Antigua of Alepo was declared a Patrimony of the Humanity by the UNESCO in 1986. His principal monuments are L to Big Mosque, the doting mother Halawiyé, that it occupies the emplacement of the ancient cathedral of Saint Helena, the citadel constructed in the XIIIth century on a hill partly artificial that one lifts 50 meters on the city, the zocos, the caravasares, the castle of Aleppo placed in the meridian of the city and the bath Yalgamma one of the most ancient Turkish SPA who impresses for his art arabesque of the ancient epoch.
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