Al-Atawilah village, the northern gateway to Al Bahah

2021-12-15 11:35:13
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Al- Atawilah is located about 45 km north of Al-Baha region on the road linking the Taif Governorate with the Al-Baha region. It is administratively affiliated to the Governorate of Al-Qura, which is affiliated with the Emirate of Al-Baha Region. Al- Atawilah is the administrative headquarters and the center of the governorate, and it is one of the most populous, most prominent and advanced and urbanized towns.

Climate: Mild, so that in the summer the weather is warm and interspersed with rain showers, and sometimes, in recent years, fog has fallen over the place in several periods of summer.

Nomenclature:

The name Al- Atawilah is spelled “A-t-a-w-i-l-a-h” (Descendant of the Zahran tribe. Ali Sadran)

The age of this town is over 1,000 years (Al-Tibyan in the Genealogical History of Zahran. Ali Sadran)

Population:

9000 people according to the Statistics Authority

Since most of the reports prepared for this town did not address the urban renaissance that Al-Atawilah enjoyed, we will shed light on the most prominent of it in a nutshell.

Its most prominent monuments are:

1- East Al-Atawilah: It is the area that presented its forward-looking vision for the development of Al-Atawilah by Finblanco Company (Ahmed Hajjar) in 1402 AH, which is currently supported by the Municipality of Al-Qura Governorate, where it directed the development compass to East Al-Atawilah, which includes many facilities, including:

- East Al-Atawilah Scheme

- Developmental Housing Scheme

- East Al-Atawilah park

- Al-Ain club land

- The headquarters of the Municipal Council of Al-Qura Governorate.

Municipal stadiums

- Recreational investment lands belonging to the municipality

And many lands allocated to government agencies (such as education, traffic, police, state security, and the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue).

2 - West Al-Atawilah, which includes the largest scheme in Al-Atawilah, Al-Matal site, and the El-Fian Museum.

3- Matoh Valley.

4- Wednesdays Market: which was held on Thursday and then was changed for some social repercussions to Wednesday, which began to disappear like other old popular markets in the Al-Baha region, which the Committee for Social Development in the community sought to revive by holding the fourth and fifth heritage festival in cooperation with the people of Al-Atawilah and the official authorities, especially the Emirate of Al-Baha region and the Governorate of Al-Atawilah, which was very popular and resonated with holidaymakers from all over the Kingdom.

5_ The Archaeological Village: which is one of the most famous and prominent heritage and archaeological landmarks in the Al-Baha region, where the heritage villages in the Kingdom constitute an important tourist tributary. It creates tourist horizons with its components that are in total a unique architectural masterpiece, the most prominent of these components are:

A - The old mosque, which is considered one of the largest mosques in the Al-Baha region, which was recently restored within the project of Prince Mohammed bin Salman to restore ancient mosques.

B- The sheikhdom's house or the so-called fortress of the sheikhdom. Which consists of several floors and is distinguished by its unique color, attractive design and brilliant construction details.

C- The old primary school or what was called in the old times, Al-Katatib, which was the nucleus of formal education in Al-Atawilah for boys and girls after that.

D- Damas fortress, which was built next to the Sheikhdom fortress as a protection for the fort and the village in general from any attacks.

E - Al Shamlani Museum, which includes many artifacts.

6- The Green Valley, which is the first of its kind in the southern region, as it embodies the condition of the old farms after the old wells, agricultural terraces, irrigation canals, and plowing were simulated in very primitive ways of splendor and mastery where the idea was from Mr. Ali bin Saad Saed Al-Zahrani and it was implemented with the support and funding of the National Social Development Committee and the men of Al-Atawilah. (A field study of the problems and needs of Al-Atawilah within the community partnerships of the Development Committee in Al-Atawilah and Al-Baha University. Dr. Hamada Al-Saadoun and the research team 1436 AH.