The smell of spices and Aleppo laurel soap returned to the Soukateya heritage market, which was affected by the effects of terrorism like other markets of the old city of Aleppo, before it reopened with the remarkable title “From Saqtia to All Aleppo”, which indicates that the process of reconstruction of the old markets started from this market. Elham, which includes dozens of shops varied between selling spices, nuts, clothing, laurel soap, pistachio and others. The reopening of Al-Saqtiya market has left a positive impact on the faces of its shop owners, who provided all the support needed to restore it in terms of securing the infrastructure of the market, and providing an amount of two million liras to each trader in order to compensate for the huge damage suffered after the theft of the contents of the shops estimated in the millions and the destruction of the building. Ammar Kassas, owner of the Spice Shop, said that the reopening of the Socotia market is of great commercial importance, especially as it assures the world that safety has returned to Aleppo, noting that the government is represented in Aleppo Governorate. Provided adequate support for the rehabilitation of Market by rehabilitating its infrastructure and compensating traders with reasonable amounts of money commensurate with the extent of the damage suffered by them, pointing out that the revitalization of commercial traffic in the market requires the rehabilitation of the rest of the old city markets in terms of Bab Antioch as there is a garage close to Bab El-Jenin market, and there is active movement of the countryside in this area. Ahmed Abtini, a trader who agrees with Nuts and Dates, agreed that completing the importance of opening the market lies in re-equipping the rest of the markets for Aleppo Citadel and towards the Umayyad Mosque, while completing the way to the market so that shoppers can come to it, pointing out that the prices offered in the market are encouraging and competitive in order to encourage Visitors to come to him and purchase of his products as before. For his part, merchant Anas Zghal specialized in selling pistachios, confirmed the improvement of the reality of the availability of this famous article by the city after the liberation of its cultivated areas, pointing out that the increase of movement shoppers need to open shops in other markets, each specialized in a certain type of goods, such as the market Attarin and clothing, and others, Note that there are heavily undamaged markets such as the door of Antioch, which requires work to rehabilitate these markets and processing so that there is integration with the rest of the markets and find shoppers everything they need. It is worth mentioning that the opening of the Socotia market comes within the plan to renovate 37 markets in the old city, which will be launched during the next phase, in turn, the Minister of Culture Mohammed Al-Ahmed stressed the importance of the completion of the opening of the market Socotia heritage, being one of the most important markets of the old city, praising the speed of completion, which has been experienced Local and contributed to her new skills.

 

Source: Tishreen Newspaper