La memoria delle citta : Hama la citta delle norie = The memory of towns : Hama the town of the norias

In such a difficult historical moment, as the one Syria is living nowadays, the narration of Hama, the fortress Hamath, a town troubled by destructions and tragic events, wants to be a hymn to the beauty of the hidden places of the Mediterranean area. Hama is the town of “norias”, huge hydraulic wheels dating back to the Seleucid period, raised the Orontes water and directed it, through appropriate air ducts, to the houses of the town and to the fields; it is historically lived maintaining an extraordinary balance in the connection between town and nature and witnessing through its extraordinary architecture, a glorious past. In this context the Polytechnic of Bari carried out its activity, cooperating with the Syrian territory through different programs aiming at the analysis of the territories and the understanding of the connections between cities and territory and the promotion of actions of development and regional cooperation among Foreign Ministry and the local towns.