Marjan Island
Circular man-made island on a Gulf breakwater, crowned by a thirty-metre spiral lookout tower.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Marjan Island on the Dammam Corniche starts with a climber on its spiral tower, Al-Malwiya, and follows that coil of stone back across twelve centuries. It ties the man-made circle of land you stand on to the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil and the famous twisted minaret of Samarra in Iraq. Best heard at the foot of the tower, where you can watch people wind their way up.
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