AL-Ghawizi Castle
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AL-Ghawizi Castle
Al-Ghawizi Castle is located in front of the northeastern entrance of the city of Mukalla. It was was built on a rock overlooking the valley and the road which lead to the northeastern entrance to the town.It dates back to (1716) in the era of the Al-Kasadi sultans. It was built mainly to monitor the military incursions coming from the direction of the North Especially those raids that were launched by the Al-Kathiri sultanate, which had taken Sayoon as its Capital City.In ddition to the raid launched by Alkaaiti sultanate, which had taken The City of Shiher as its Capital. Later when they seized mukall City , they considered it the capital instead of the initial capital Shiher.
The castle consists of two floors In addition building walls above the second floor but roof is open.It is 20 meters high.people go up through the boarding stairs up to the gate erected in the north, with a wide (1.20 meters), which consists of local building materials and traditional architecture. Its building foundations re of precious decorative and undecorative stones and the rest of the building with milk mixture, and ceilings set up on palm trunks. Its walls foreign walls has been recently painted with plaster.
The first floor consists of several rooms, the outside walls has prisom-shaped windows from all directions, and second floor windows are very wide. The surface of the castle is surrounded by a barrier up to the height of (1.50 meters) on the surface level, and at a distance (30 meters) toward the north-east of the castle,there is a tank of water reservoir was erected as a building, rises from ground level (1.20 meters) is surrounded by two water canals from both the southern and western directions built with stones . The purpose was to provide the Castle with water.
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