No. 4 of 200 · Famous Cities
The Citadel of Aleppo
By the Picturepops™ team
The great Citadel of Aleppo crowns its rocky hill above domed mosques and brightly painted houses in this hand-coloured lithograph from around 1885, with an old plan of the city inside. Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, famous for the olive and laurel oil soap made there for centuries. For someone with roots in Aleppo or a love of old cities.
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Aleppo · Lithograph view / The Citadel of Aleppo / Unsigned, c. 1885 / The great citadel crowns its hill above domed mosques and brightly painted houses inside the city walls. Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and its olive and laurel oil soap has been made for centuries.
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