الفصل السادس في ربوع الساحل والجبال الساحلية .. كتاب في ربوع سورية

Chapter six

Along the coast and coastal mountains

- introduction :

The parts of the coast and the coastal mountains are the areas of tourism, summer, hiking and recreation. There are green mountains that rise more than 1,000 meters in some of their locations, and a beautiful sea along which a beautiful Syrian coast extends for about 180 km. Because of the winter warmth of this coastal plain, and a different climate, its contrast played a role in linking the mountain to the coastal plain and integrating them economically, touristically and humanly.

It is the permanent beauty of nature whose greenery does not leave you and does not lose sight of the azure waters of its sea. Wherever you go, be it summer or winter, you will find nature adorned with its greenery, and with the flow of its springs, sweet, sparkling water that irrigates the earth and irrigates people. Hundreds of water springs flow from the rocks that store them in the western slopes of the coastal mountains, which created on their edges foci of lush gardens with their tall trees, which have become the focus of attention of tourists and vacationers, as in Uyun al-Ghar and Mariza in the south of Safita, the springs of Hassan and al-Hanan in the north of Tartous, and the head of the spring in Banias, And the spring of age.

Geography and history did not measure one of the geographical regions of Syria as it measured the coastal region and the coastal mountains at a stage in its history. But is geography to blame...? . The coastal mountains did not change naturally towards
The best, but has changed and evolved humanly. And whoever knows the coastal mountains thirty or forty years ago and before, and compares them with what. Today, he is well aware of the great human role in changing geography, creating a new history, and drawing a future picture of a new and renewed world.

The mountains were a stronghold and shelter that some human groups took to avoid persecution and fear of oppression, and this is evidenced by the scattering of many fortified castles and the building of ancient villages in the impenetrable quilts of mountains. How repulsive were those mountains for life in them due to the harsh climate of their winters, the ruggedness of their land, and the narrowness of their plain agricultural land. As for today, how much are our coastal mountains overlooking the western side of the Mediterranean Sea, attracting residents from all regions of the country and from the Arab world and many countries of the world. So what is that change? It is the human first who is patient, works hard, strives, learns, succeeds and excels. He descends from the mountain and ascends to the peaks, refusing submissiveness and submission, and devoting himself to building and change, so he turns the mountains into gardens of various kinds of fruits that we find in the markets of all Syrian regions, and cultivates in them what is scientifically proficient, its cultivation, He praised the beautiful architecture on the hills and plateaus, adding to the beauty of nature the beauty of construction and reconstruction, and the construction of asphalt roads that currently connect all parts of the western slope secretly, from the mountains to each other and to the coast and even to the Syrian interior. All of this makes it easy for the visitor and the tourist to get to know the beauty of the mountains, which have become a destination for vacationers in Syria and many countries of the Arab world.