Tourist attraction
Tarout Castle
Hilltop island fort of mud and stone walls, built over a Bronze Age temple and scarred by siege.
0:00≈ 2 min
Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Tarout Castle, on Tarout Island near Dammam, centres on the early seventeen-nineties, when a defeated Khalidi commander named Abdullah bin Suleiman al-Mahshuri retreated behind these walls with the army of the First Saudi State close behind. It follows the brothers who led that army and the castle's battered towers, and asks what a wall of mud and sea stone can really withstand. Stand close to the outer wall to start.
This audio guide was created using AI.