The shape of this place, which is located in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula, northwest of Riyadh, The first capital of the Al Saud family. Al-Turaif neighborhood, which was founded in the fifteenth century, bears traces of the Najdi architectural style that is unique to the center of the Arabian Peninsula. It grew in the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century, The political and religious role of Al-Turaif neighborhood and it became a center of Al Saud power and the spread of Salafi reform in Islam. This property includes traces of many palaces, In addition to a city built on the banks of the Diriyah Oasis.
N24 44 2.88 E46 34 20.88
2010
(iv)(v)(vi)
28.78 ha
237.95 ha
1329
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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