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The citadel, Aleppo is considered as a World Heritage Site in 1986 by UNESCO. The Citadel, Aleppo is considered as a prominent historical site among Aleppo Tourist Attractions in the center of the city enveloping it. The Citadel, Aleppo has become a major site of tourist attraction as an Islamic landmark which also has Byzantine and Roman ruins. You can easily visit the citadel with the help of good transportation facilities that function around it.

The Citadel, Aleppo with an elliptical base is 450m long and width of the structure is 325m. The entire Citadel of Aleppo was built with a cover of limestone blocks which unified the entire structure along with the hill thus increasing its visual scale. The citadel was also surrounded by a moat filled with water to prevent it from intruders. The citadel of Aleppo can even rival with the citadel of Cairo and that of Damascus. It was a Neo-Hittite acropolis originally built on a hill and is a strategic site for guarding the surrounding agricultural areas. Sayf al-Dawla,who was the first Hamdanid ruler built the fortress as the military center to control the power over his region. In the beginning of the 13 th century, the citadel emerged into a palatial building with a range of purposes like the residential, military installations, and religious buildings like the mosques and shrines. The details of the same can be got from your Aleppo Travel.

In the thirteenth century another important addition was during al-Ghazi's reign, which is the establishment of the Great Mosque of the Citadel. The mosque's situation is at the top of the citadel with a minaret towering over it which gives greater visibility as well as defense system to the citadel. The most prominent renovation that the citadel saw was the entrance block rebuilt in 1213 by al-Ghazi. There are as many as eight large arches which structure the citadel's bridge that leads up to the moat finally. The very complicated defense mode that is the chief characteristic of the Citadel, Aleppo makes it one of the hardest forts to be conquered in the region. The Ottoman rule saw the slowly diminished military role of the Citadel as a defense fortress with the city growing outside the walls gradually evolving into a commercial metropolis. The tourist will undoubtedly gain a lot viewing this historical landmark in his Aleppo Tours.

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