Rijal Almaa or Rijal Almaa () is a village located in the Asir province, Saudi Arabia.
Rijal Almaa contains around 60 multi-story buildings made of stone, clay and wood.
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 Al-Asiri", 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.
Museum
In the middle of the village, there is a museum called the “Rijal Alma'a 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.
21st-century developments
In 2015, a rehabilitation project was undertaken by The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities in collaboration with the private sector. Moreover, a museum was established by the local people in one of the village's forts in 1985.
In 2017, the village was awarded the prize of Prince Sultan bin Salman for Urban Heritage.
In September 2023, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced Soudah Peaks, a tourism project to develop of 6 different regions in Jabal Soudah, including Rijal Almaa.
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