Kategorie

Cultural

Land

Syrian Arab Republic

Einschreibungsjahr

1979

Kriterien

(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(vi)

UNESCO-ID

20

Beschreibung

Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In the Middle Ages, it was the centre of a flourishing craft industry, specializing in swords and lace. The city has some 125 monuments from different periods of its history – one of the most spectacular is the 8th-century Great Mosque of the Umayyads, built on the site of an Assyrian sanctuary.