This is the website of the Citadel of Aleppo, built by Touristech — a project of JCI Beroea — under the authority of the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums and the Ministry of Tourism.
What it is for
Two things, which most heritage websites treat as separate. The first is to tell you what you are looking at: twenty-two monuments and fifteen cultures on one hill, written from the record and credited to it. The second is to be useful on the day — hours, prices, the climb, where the water is, where the step-free route ends.
Sites that do the first tend not to do the second. We think a visitor standing at the gate on a Syrian mobile connection deserves both, which is why this site is built to stay light rather than to impress.
The stations
Six screens stand inside the Citadel, each looping a short film about the place you are standing in. Each carries a short address you can type into a phone, which brings you to the full article. The screens run offline; the website carries the depth.
What comes next
The three-dimensional record of the mound, the guided routes, the recorded stories of the people who work here, and the Old City beyond the gate.