Abstract

ALEPPO BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR 2010–2018

Highlights

  • What remains of Cultural Heritage in Syria? And in particular in Aleppo? Aleppo, according to UNESCO, is the oldest city in t he world

  • Results of spherical photogrammetry applied to the Syrian monuments were presented in Fangi and Wahbeh (2013) – digital reconstruction of the minaret of the Great M osque or Umayyade M osque destroyed in 2012, Fangi (2015) and Fangi et al (2016)

  • A video of the 3D reconstruction was seen by M s Reme Sakr, head of the Living Heritage Program of the Syrian Trust for Development, a Syrian NGO, and she proposed to the A. to return to Syria and visit Damascus and Aleppo

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ABS TRACT: What remains of Cultural Heritage in Syria? And in particular in Aleppo? Aleppo, according to UNESCO, is the oldest city in t he world. The A. visited the city in October 2018 at the invitation of the Syrian Trust for Development He previously went to Syria for a photographic tour in 2010. This is precisely the case of the minaret They will try to reconstruct the monument where it was, as it was and with the same materials, with possibly the same blocks in the same position they were in. The minaret is the most important monument in Syria, because it is the symbol of the country It was built in 1092, and its restoration was completed in 2007. The technique is very much suitable for heritage documentation and the A. hopes to transfer it to the students of the local faculty of architecture In this last mission, especially for the interiors, the A. made extensive use of Panono, a multi-image camera capable of covering 360°.

INTRODUCTION
THE DOCUMENTED MONUMENTS
THE S URVEYS ALLOWING COMPARIS ON
THE GREAT UMAYYADS MOS QUE AND THE MINARET
CONCLUS IONS
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