The largest historic market in the world

Teeming with over 1,000 stalls extending over 13 km long, Aleppo Market has been the core of the city’s economic and social life for hundreds of years. Each section of Aleppo’s Bazar, bears the name of trades or products such as the Cooper Souq or Wool Souq.

For centuries, Chinese silk and porcelain, Central Asian cotton, spices from India, Italian crystal and glassworks, metal products from Persia and Iraq, and local products such as soap or fabrics have been imported to Aleppo’s markets, and transited to all the world by caravans arriving in or leaving the distinctive caravanserais (khans).

Souk of Spice Traders “Alattar” is the word that refers to the perfume trader, but it went further to include the pharmacists and even the doctors. Back in the past this souk was considered as the pharmacy for the locals, and some of its merchants were speciallized pharmacists, who practiced the real and superstitions-free medicine since the tenth century, such as Al Razi, Ibn Bitar, Ibn Sina, Ibn Al Nafis, and others that have contributed in discovering many natrual plants and herbs that have medical benifit for human body.