Aleppo

Aleppo boasts to be one of the oldest cities in the world. Its acropolis, where a superb 12th Century citadel is obvious today,

hides many vestiges of successive civilisations who ruled this area.Its medina, the most Oriental medina of Orient, had its plan drawn by the Greek and was hardly changed ever since. The visitor is right on moved into the Middle Age and will be overwhelmed by scents, colours and the hubbub of the swarming labyrinth of this important commercial centre where traders still have their offices in the great number of caravanserais, where Silk Road caravans do not arrive anymore, but they however kept their original function as a trade centre of the city.

Jdeideh area is the fashionable neighbourhood built in the 17th Century when the intra-muros town was too exiguous to accommodate the ever growing population. This neighbourhood hosts today many hotels and restaurants located in large houses that belonged to bourgeois families. 
Aleppo's archaeological museum offers treasures of pieces from Ebla Royal archives' tablets to findings in North Eastern Syria (Tell Halaf, Arslan Tash, Tell Ahmar).

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