{"id":5331,"date":"2014-07-03T18:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2014-07-03T18:34:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:34:25","slug":"syrian-tourism-day-kicks-off-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=5331","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Tourism Day kicks off in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid, SANA-Director of the Tourism Ministry&#8217;s Tourist Promotion and Marketing Bassam Barsik said the activities of the 3rd Syrian Tourism Day around the World kicked off Wednesday in Spain&#8217;s capital, Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>The event, he said, is organized in cooperation between Ministry of Tourism and Friends of Maaloula society at the Syrian Cultural Center in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to SANA, Barsik said the opening ceremony shed light on the pillage and vandalism perpetrated by terrorists against archeological sites in Syria which, he said, &#8220;belong to humanity at large, not only Syria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A photo exhibition titled &#8220;Syria&#8217;s Archeological Treasures\u2026Humanity&#8217;s Heritage&#8221; showcased photos of Syrian heritage sites before and after vandalism acts by terrorists. 5 promotional films about Syria were also screened.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of Maaloula Friends Society in Madrid Yossef Mes&#8217;ed underscored the significance of the activity in bringing the Syrian civilization and heritage into limelight for the world to recognize, emphasizing the necessity that the Syrian expats play a role in making what is happening back home known to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the Syrian Cultural Center in Madrid Aktham Abdul-Hamid pointed to attemptsby terrorists to obliterate the Syrian civilization. &#8220;And hence comes,&#8221; he said, &#8220;the importance of this activity which makes it possible to get across a message about the importance of preserving this human heritage,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Tourism Day in Madrid last till July 31.<\/p>\n<p>M. Ismael<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid, SANA-Director of the Tourism Ministry&#8217;s Tourist Promotion and Marketing Bassam Barsik said the activities of the 3rd Syrian Tourism Day around the World kicked off Wednesday in Spain&#8217;s capital, Madrid. The event, he said, is organized in cooperation between Ministry of Tourism and Friends of Maaloula society at the Syrian Cultural Center in Madrid. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8,21,151,160,488,46],"tags":[1082,1027,1084,1083,583],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-newscasts","category-arts-culture","category-miscellaneous","category-news-culture","category-news-and-reports","category-tourism1","category-tourism-and-community","tag-heritage","tag-maaloula","tag-madrid","tag-syrian-tourism-day","tag-tourism-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}