On May 18, is the final part, the aircraft is waiting for us at Fiumicino. It 's a flight to Syria and the company already written Arabic characters on the plane with me a certain emotion.
will arrive in Aleppo , the airport is very modern! You can not say the same with that of the city .... Damascus is one of the oldest. Remains very impressed that mix of old / modern Islam is able to work together in a rather balanced ...
The photos that follow will relate mainly to plant characteristics of the site to culture (suk Arabic) and a few archaeological sites of particular importance ...
While visiting an archaeological site we found this wild plant beans.
know which plant is this? A professor of art history would guess now ------->>
Well ... it is the acanthus .. that tree whose leaves are always represented on the Corinthian capitals and that everyone knows ....
This plant was taken very seriously by the ancients as the leaves in the course of their life cycle, they changed the form representing so the various phases of human life
style of its octagonal cupola, will be filmed in Armenian churches of 800-1000 AD and later imported to Europe. Celebrated the apse of the Church Templar of Tomar in Portugal, Syrian style.
While walking to the site I have met several pine trees, of course d 'Aleppo, with the tufts of needles much longer than we know.
is back in town and visit the citadel and fortress walls inaccessible with very special and powerful.
And now a bit of distraction through the souk
Until you go through the souks, you can not imagine the variety of spices of amber, colors and scents that intoxicate you, but then suddenly steps in front of a butcher, who makes a fine show of his goods, perhaps recently slaughtered ..... and then come back to reality
Now I will propose some im
images of the mosque of Aleppo 
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