At-Turaif World Heritage Site
Restored mud-brick citadel on a ridge, first capital of the Saudi state and seat of its early imams.
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This guide to At-Turaif, the mud-brick old quarter of Diriyah on the edge of Riyadh, opens in the spring of eighteen eighteen, when an army sent on behalf of the Ottoman sultan arrived below its walls. It reaches back to the alliance between a local ruler and a preacher that made this ridge the capital of the first Saudi state, and to the palace where its rulers lived. Best heard standing beside the thick earthen walls of Salwa Palace.
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