Places · AlUla

AlUla Old Town, nine hundred mud houses

A walled town of houses, shops and gates on the incense and pilgrimage routes, near Hegra.

The town

AlUla Old Town lies in the centre of AlUla Governorate, about 26 km south of Hegra. It is built of mud brick and counts 900 houses, 400 historic shops, five courtyards and fourteen gates.

It grew on the incense trade routes and on the pilgrimage road between Damascus and Makkah.

What to see

In al-Darb Square stands the al-Tantora sundial. Above the town rises a fort that served as a defensive lookout.

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