Maalulla town has a high religious, historic and cultural position
internationally and it is one of the Syrian mountain towns which is
located on the eastern slops of the eastern cliffs mountain and the western
cliffs mountains of the first Qalamo
on mountain range. Due to such a
geographical site, strict conditions were set on the town's building plans
especially because of the several geo-morphological hazards which
threaten the town such as the spreading of rocky masses in the higher
sections of slops in addition to other factors which contribute in
identifying such hazards levels such as the distances between the rocky
masses and houses, economical and service constructions, their size and
number in addition to their morphologic characteristics, moving and
resisting forces, slops shapes, distribution of sections, fractures and
cracks system which affect the degree of Qusta front cliff stability
through their distribution and directions, in addition to all geological,
topographic, climate and geo-morphologic states of the area.
