An Argentine family expresses admiration for the ancient city of Palmyra and its great cultural heritage

Palmyra-Sana

An Argentine family who visited the historic city of Palmyra expressed her great admiration and overwhelming happiness at witnessing the city's history, its architecture and its great cultural heritage, despite its dissatisfaction after seeing the effects of the devastation that affected the most prominent monuments due to the terrorist attacks of ISIS terrorists.

Father Rafael Somini, a retired university professor, told a SANA reporter that the calm that he and his family had touched in Palmyra and the safety they felt allowed them to roam in a vast and amazing archaeological area, indicating that this would support the return of tourism to this internationally known city.

He also expressed his deep regret after seeing archaeological monuments, which had become piles of stones as a result of being destroyed by the enemies of human culture who committed these heinous crimes.

In turn, the wife Blanca Issa, a retired school, stated in a similar statement that her dream came true with her family by visiting the city of Palmyra, expressing at the same time her grief and pain for the vandalism of the city's civilizational landmarks by terrorists, enemies of enlightenment and cultural thought, and appealed to the relevant international cultural organizations to seriously contribute to the restoration of Restoration of these monuments, which are the property of all humanity.

For her part, the daughter Natalia, a student, pointed out that the city of Palmyra is very beautiful and a place worth visiting, indicating that she will transfer her observations to her schoolmates and to all her friends, provided with pictures that documented this, indicating that she will encourage them to visit Syria and meet its nice and generous people.

Adnan Al-Khatib