Masmak Fortress
Mud-brick fortress with corner watchtowers, stormed in the raid that began the Saudi kingdom.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Masmak Fortress in Riyadh turns on a single winter morning in January 1902, when a young exile named Abdulaziz ibn Saud and a small band of men came back for the city his family had lost. It follows their weeks hidden in the Empty Quarter desert, the night they slipped over the walls, and the Rashidi governor sleeping behind this palm-wood gate. Best heard standing in front of the main door, where you can study its timber up close.
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