Marcela Jacques from Recife and Renata Isa from Curitiba live in the Arab country with their husbands and children and were taken aback by the war started in 2011.
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The last story of ANBA series on the country talks about Latakia on the Mediterranean coast. A tourism region, it suffered with the crisis and the loss of many of its sons, soldiers that died in combat in other cities.
Crac des Chevalier, a Crusader castle in Syria, was occupied for two years by armed groups and damaged during the fights. On top of a mountain, the monument oversees the Valley of Christians and is the theme of ANBA’s fourth story on the country.
In its third special report on Syria, ANBA recounts a visit to the city that was full of armed groups during the war that broke out in 2011, and to one of the country’s main archaeological sites – damaged, but still impressive.
In the town of Maaloula, which has been a Christian pilgrimage site for centuries, some of the landmarks have been damaged. One of a few places in the world where Aramaic is still spoken, the village is the subject of the second story in an ANBA series on the Arab country.
Over the course of a week, ANBA visited war-torn cities, historical and religious sites across the country. Damascus is the subject of the first in a series of articles starting this Tuesday.
Estimate was presented by the country’s Tourism minister Rami Radwan Martini and includes material damages, destruction of historical sites, unemployment, and significantly reduced revenues.
