Palmyra, hidden away in the Syrian desert, is famous to be Syria’s most symptomatic of its cultural and historical past. Ancient city, which is home to Roman monuments, was a center of culture and commerce. The surviving theatres, colonnaded avenues, and temples are monument-sized tourist draws by virtue of size and age, remains of some part of this town’s wealth that passed through this Silk Road desert oasis.
Palmyra’s one sole tourist destination of choice, without doubt, is the Temple of Bel, built originally as a temple to Mesopotamian god Baal. Its grace and extremely sophisticated structure are a legacy of cross-influence exchange of Greco-Roman and Middle Eastern civilization. Completely polluted by recent conflict, in the hands of conservators and archaeologists to restore that which is left of the complex and uncover hidden history is unstoppable to restore that which is left and recreate lost accounts. It is evidence of survival by the ancient civilizations to destruction.
To the north of Syria is Aleppo, living history of Syria. Longest and most sequentially settled city in the world, oldest city has within it ancient fortress complex, Citadel of Aleppo. Bird’s eye view of the city surrounding it and an eye witness to the city’s centuries-long military and architectural history, the citadel is.
Among its riches is the old souk, or bazaar, of Aleppo. Impossibly intricate possibility of centuries-old alleys and stalls, the souk is crowded with home-cooked vegetables and fruits, ceramics, and textiles. Bombed continuously in battles, some of the bazaar was restored and artists continued to produce items the old-fashioned way.
Beyond the cities, Syria has its own geography. There are valley villages and village countryside to look at and ramble and rambled countryside and roam about in mountains and seashores and countryside along the Mediterranean sea coast of Latakia.
Syrian cuisine has been termed Syria’s strict food canonicity. Syrian cuisine is supplemented by foods such as tabbouleh, kebab Hindi, and baklava that are indigenous taste syncretization forms after centuries of global trade and immigration. Syrian cuisine is cultural tourism and migration saga where storytelling can facilitate recovery of history and human beings’ identity communities in the country.
They were succeeded by these productions, and additional tourists, conservators, and thinkers today turn to the nation’s heritage and natural attractions. They are not talking about Syrian richness and diversity of heritage but cultural resistance on an epic level against extremist adversity.
Its cultural heritage, its intangible cultural heritage, and its tradition architecture are testimonies to the resourcefulness and capability of human beings. Palmyra and Aleppo have given us a more-than-three-dimensional image of a country whose past is an international cause célèbre in repeat chronic at the end of time.
