Sana'a, the Old Walled City (Yemen) : The Cultural Heritage and Conservation

• It is an old city in the Republic of Yemen, It was established in the second half of the first century A.D. • During the Islamic period, the city had the Islamic features in all types of architectural building and its layout. • Because of political circumstances, the old city still has its original features till the end of the twentieth century. • For its fame in the monumental buildings and magnificent houses some western scientists called or named it; The Eastern Old Walled City. • As all old cities, Sana'a was not far from the modernization effects. • The programmer of conservation had begun directly after the revolution in 1962: establishing an executive office for conserving processes, enacting laws, and putting regulation-demanding the help from UNESCO and also from many countries to: 1. Restore many building epically many monumental buildings. 2. Improvement in infrastructure: pavement, water pipes and sewerage works. 3. Help the inhabitants to restore their houses.