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street scenes: Old city
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  • By TheWanderingCamel on April 25, 2005
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  • Old city street - Aleppo
    Old city street
    by TheWanderingCamel
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    The Old City is a bewildering maze of narrow, twisting lanes and alleys - dusty, crumbling but generally reasonably clean. Apart from the obvious places like the souq, the Citadel, the hammams, madrassa and mosques, etc, there is much to interest the inquisitive aimless wanderer. Wonderful studded and carved doors leading where? Massive door knockers and dainty Hands of Fatima, carved lintels, latticed balconies, metal workshops with glowing braziers in their depths, minarets of every shape and height, a tiny cemetery on a little hill, a small square filled with fruit and vegetable barrows, one of the gates inremnant of the city walls. Al this and much more, enough to keep you exploring as long as your feet hold out. A taxi back to your hotel will only cost you a dollar or so.

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    street scenes: New city expansion
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  • Updated By TheWanderingCamel on April 25, 2005
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  • New apartments - Aleppo
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    Approaching the outskirts of Aleppo, particularly from the north-west, you cannot help but notice the enormous amount of new building going on. There's block after block of new apartments, some looking very extravagant with acres of elaborate stone and marble. New mosques sprout minarets everywhere - some are elegantly restrained while others look like something out of a Disney fantasy. New roads lead off in all directions. This explosion of building is not surprising when you know that in just four years from 1992 to 1996 the population of Aleppo doubled, but why and how so much of it appears to be so opulent is more of a mystery. What is a certainty however, is that with more than 50% of the population under the age of 19, the building boom is going to last for some time yet.

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    street scenes: Bab Antakya
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  • Updated By MalenaN on May 20, 2006
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    Bab Antakya, Aleppo
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    Bab Antakya is the western gate in the old city wall. It was constructed by the Ayubbids in the 13th century and at that time some blocks were used from the Roman triumphal arch that stood here before. In the 15th century the gate was restored and modified. Today there are lots of workshops around it. To your left, after you have entered the gate, there are stairs leading up to the wall, from where you can watch the busy street and micro bus station below. If you from Bab Antakya follow the narrow street straight through the souq, for about 1,5 km, you will end up by the citadel.

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    street scenes: more aleppo streets
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  • Updated By Bavavia on March 14, 2005
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  • Very lovely shops - Aleppo
    Very lovely shops
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    I remember this day......Fouad had dropped me off in the shopping district for me to get familiar with the stores and shopping areas....I remember this well because i just remember so many stores, streets and streets of stores. It had just stopped raining at this time and I remember it was hard to carry my umbrella and the packages! I borrowed the umbrella from the hotel.

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    street scenes: Walk around the streets of Aleppo..
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  • By Bavavia on March 2, 2005
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  • around town - Aleppo
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    Aleppo is a very nice city, try to explore as much as you can by just taking a walk and taking in the sights. On my first day, i walked toward the clock tower area. Its a nice city. People looked at me a little funny because i guess i looked out of place a little bit with my video camera but everyone was nice.

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    street scenes: Street Scene
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  • By Sambawalk on February 10, 2005
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  • street scenes - Aleppo
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    Although one of the highlights of shopping is in the old souq, browsing around Sharia al –Tilal in the new city near the Clock Tower and Al-Jdeida areas are also interesting and a good way to see the modern life of Syrian in this city.

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    street scenes: Shopping at night
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  • By Sambawalk on February 10, 2005
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    During my visit in Syria in Ramadan, shopping at night is the most interesting and exciting as most of the households would come out to shop after they break the fast. I don’t see the difference between the shopping scene here at night and that in Hong Kong.

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    street scenes: Clock Tower
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  • By Sambawalk on February 10, 2005
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    This clock tower which situate along Sharia Bab al-Faraj, in Aleppo new city can give you some bearings of the budget accommodation area in Sharia al-Dala.

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    street scenes: Beyond Old Aleppo
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  • Updated By MM212 on August 9, 2007
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    Aleppo's population growth in the past century has necessitated rapid expansion beyond its traditional boundaries. The modern city of Aleppo sprawls as far as the horizon and is home to approximately 3 million people. Apart from driving through the modern city, I saw very little of it. However, it was enough to notice that it suffered from the same problems that plague other rapidly expanding developing-world cities, such as pollution, congestion and overcrowding.


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    street scenes: Old Aleppo
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  • Updated By MM212 on May 1, 2008
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  • March 2008 - Aleppo
    March 2008
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    Any visitor to Aleppo is likely to spend most of his or her time along the narrow cobblestoned alleys of the old city, amid carved stone façades of its palaces, khans and mosques. Old Aleppo is built entirely from stone and its narrow streets trace the grid laid out by the ancient Greeks who conquered the city under Alexander the Great and named it Beroea. To the west of the dominating Citadel - the city's ancient Acropolis - lies the heart of Old Aleppo, and within narrow alleys and between ancient monuments thrives its legendary souk. While guidebooks may provide detailed maps, one must allow oneself the pleasure of getting lost in the old city and discovering its many hidden surprises. The unmatched charm of old Aleppo and its history have earned it inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. Attached are photos of some of the streets of old Aleppo. For more photos, also check out the travelogue: "Old Aleppo".


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