Rijal Almaʽa

Rijal Almaʽa (رجال ألمع) is a heritage village located in Rijal Almaa province, which is in the Asir region, about 52 km west of Abha,[1] southwest of Saudi Arabia, the village is more than 900 years old.[2] The village had an ideal location through which it linked the people coming from Yemen and the Levant through the Holy City of Medina and Medina, additionally making it an important commercial center. The village consists of about 60 buildings including a museum built by the people of the village made of natural stones, clay, and timber.[3]

Description

The village includes several buildings, which consist of several floors, some reaching eight floors, they were made of stones and they also have colored wooden windows. They also contain inscriptions that appear on the interior walls of rooms. The art used in these inscriptions is known as the "Al-Qatt art", in which harmonious shapes and colors are usually placed by village women. In the outer courtyards of the houses, there are some wooden chairs and furnished mats, with shapes colored in green, white, yellow, and red, also present on the windows and wooden doors.[1]

The Museum

In the middle of the village, there is a museum called the “Men of the Brightest Heritage Museum”, which takes the Al Al-wan Palace as its headquarters it was chosen because it includes several floors and its construction dates back to more than four centuries, and the palace has gone through renovation works in which the villagers participated in. The museum displays the village's unique heritage, antiquities, and collections of manuscripts, tools, and weapons, as it houses more than two thousand antiquities and documents distributed in nineteen sections of the museum.[1]

Wadi Hali dam

Wadi Hali dam is located in the north of the village. The area has many traditional houses.[4]

See also
  • Rijal Almaa province

References
  1. "رجال ألمع". www.saudicolours.com. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  2. "المواقع التراثية". mt.gov.sa. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  3. "المواقع الأثرية المرشحة للتسجيل في قائمة التراث العالمي". web.archive.org. 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  4. "Rijal Almaa". sauditourism.sa. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
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