Capital of Yemen during one of the most brilliant periods, Taiz today enjoys a position as a major economic center. Taiz is mentioned for the first time in the late 12 century during the reign of the Ayyubids - the forces that had been run by the brother of Saladin Turanshah. At that time, quarterly revenues of the port city of Aden was brought to Taiz.

The following are some tourist attractions in Taiz worth being visited:
The old city of Taiz has two inputs - Bab al-Kabeer (The Great Gate) and Baba Musa (Moses Gate). The wall section of the city contains a beautiful souk which specializes in one type of Taiz delicious cheese, dried fish and silver jewelry.
Castle of Cairo is the great fortification is being renovated using original river stone and construction techniques.
Mosque of Al-Ashrafiyyah is one of the few mosques in Yemen that tourists are allowed to enter. Tourists can walk the grounds and see the tombs of Al-Ashraf, his wife, his father, his sons, and his chief security guard, and take a step in the right mosque to admire the decor.
The tomb marks signify the location of the royal tombs in the room below. There are many reliefs nice inside.
Found a secret door in 2005 leading to the underground room. Supposedly, many local government officials came here when the rumors came out with the hope of discovering great treasures that can be stored. But found no treasures - only the graves.
Al-Mu 'tabiyya Mosque was built by Ashraf, in honor of his wife 23 years after the construction of his mosque. Both mosques were built with similar design, although the al-Mu'tabiyya is full of pictures and inscriptions. No graves. The mosque was reserved for women to pray, but finally decided that the men did not have enough room, and took for themselves.

Abd al-Hadi mosque was built in 1618 in commemoration of a Sufi saint of the same name who had died a hundred years earlier. There is a large monument to the grave al-Hadi in the interior of the structure.
Modhafer Mosque is the oldest mosque in Taiz, and built by the name of the grandfather of al-Ashraf. It has a minaret with two large white domes.
Knowing Jabal peaks over 3 m. .. the villages that dot the mountainside are best known for its women, labor bargainers who use bright Balts who are famous for their beauty.

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In Jebel Nugum above it, sits in Sana'a, the narrowest point of a large plateau (2.286 meters) above sea level. The region of volcanic origin and regular rainfall make fertile and enjoys a mild climate all year round, with the occasional hard freeze in the small hours of winter nights. A legend was founded by Shem, son of Noah.
Sana has been important since ancient times, an urban center of the tribes and the market is always a trade center for the region. Located at the intersection of two major ancient trade routes, one linking the fertile plains highlands, the other Marib and the Red Sea, and was a natural mall. The name probably derives from Sana'a within South Arabia felt well fortified. As its Qasr-Silhen, rebuilt on the establishment of Islam, today you can do with many of its walls still standing. In the old city of Sanaa tower around 14,000 houses are raised six (sometimes nine) stories high. Many originally had a limited agricultural potential to the adjacent land. The traditional social structures defined in Yemen as part of building a house.
The construction technique combines skill handed down by one generation to another - to produce a creative use of space and light. While in many other Arab houses surround a courtyard and look inward, Yemen streets of houses overlooking the community.
So what of the old city of Sanaa? Visitors, Arabs and Europeans, have always impressed by its fortifications, architecture and gardens, and its populousness, about twelve thousand in the early seventeenth century, forty thousand in the mid-nineteenth century and nearly a million today. "Abounding in good things," wrote the twelfth century Arab geographer al-Idrisi, "and full of buildings ... the oldest, largest and most populous city of Yemen" - in Arabia, he might have added - "a atmosphere, a fertile soil, and heat and cold is always warm. "
Sana'a is basically a medieval setting, and many of the houses before the date in the nineteenth century, especially in its lower floors. The city organization is typical of the region: the perimeter of the massive walls, a large and growing market, a great mosque for the largest gathering on Friday, and the palace of a ruler, now gone, but probably in the previous period has been near the Great Mosque. That palace typically includes administrative offices, reception rooms, bathrooms and well-watered gardens with more sources. A walk in the old town is an intense pleasure at any time or day.

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Cages around the southern Wadi Hadramout are the Gulf of Aden and its two main ports of historical and Shihr Mukkalla.
Hans Helfritz in the 1930's, wrote about "Mukkalla, a city of brilliant whiteness of extraordinary beauty, with its many palaces and tall towers, is located in a charming Bya close under the dark cliffs of the Jebel Kara. it is the gateway to the province of Hadramout. "Crammed between one of the great regions of Yemen volcanic mountains and the sea, approached, either by road from the coast of Aden or the Wadi Hadramout Seiyun. This road passes through a succession of valleys and interesting towns and across the cage, a semi-desert plateau.
Mukalla has been of great importance for many centuries, with the expansion of their trade to India and Southeast Asia and India show the many influences in its architecture.


Residents say the city was founded in 1625 by a sultan Yafa'I, Ahmed bin Madyam to Kasadi. In 1914 he took over Shihr, about 50 km to the east, as the capital of Hadramout when Qu'aitis (originally a tribe of Yafa) transferred his capital.


The city's architecture makes creative use of cast considerable and, in general, is distinguished by its nuances and Indian-inspired Southeast Asia, the latter evident everywhere in the narrow alleys where intrinsically magnificent carved doors and window screens can be find. The night lit ar-Rawdha and Umar mosques are lovely.


The traveler Jorgen Bisch writes in his book Behind the Veil in Saudi that the doors are so important around Mikalla that sometimes stands in the door first, and the house was built around it.)


The Sultan's Palace, which sits on the edge of the beach near the town, was built in late 1920 by Sultan 'Umar Awadh sl-Qu'aiti million and is based in India and the new classical style.

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Al - Hodeidah is the Cinderella of the Red Sea and captivating bride. One of the most beautiful cities in Yemen. This is the most diverse and most beautiful among them. His nature exhibits a wonderful green dress and beauty throughout the year.
Her dress is displayed perfumed with the scent of jasmine, Redolence screw pine and the smell of musk. Its climate is affected by all the conditions and take different phenomena along its coastal areas, mountainous and desert area.

Al - Hodeidah Yemen is the fourth city in population and developed as the main port of the Ottomans, when trade declined Mukha coffee and still retains its old Turkish quarter. At night the light of the markets, with men under the sale of fruits hurricane lamps, and early morning fish market is a hive of activity.
Wealthy merchant families built opulent houses in the old area of ​​the Turk - Hodeida.
These buildings have interior plasterwork beautifully carved and richly decorated balconies. Above, stucco walls and decorative niches colored pressed glass and mirrors painted with turkey scintillate designs - a recurring theme throughout the Tihama and the indication of the influences of India seen in the region due to the rolling sea.

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Aden is one of the most beautiful coastal cities in Yemen, known for its wonderful beaches, monuments, impregnable castles and many souks. It is also the economic capital of Yemen, 170 kilometers east of Bab-el-Mandeb.

Aden's ancient, natural harbor is located in the crater of an extinct volcano that forms a peninsula, joined to the mainland by an isthmus low. This port, Bayfront, was first used by the ancient Kingdom of Awsan between 5 and 7 centuries before Christ. The modern port is on the other side of the peninsula. Aden has a number of historical and natural sites of interest to visitors. These include: Tawila Tanks - an ancient water system cachement located in the sub-center of Crater.

Sira Fort

The minaret of Aden

The Palace of the Sultanate of Lahej / National Museum

The Aden Military Museum

The Rimbaud House

Hadid's fortifications and Jebal Shamsan Jebal

The beaches of Aden and Little Aden

Mosque of Al-Aidaroos

Zoroastrian Temple

Britain's historic churches

Marshes of Aden (The Tawila tanks): Tanks are in the old crater, the construction of Aden, the name of the creek that cuts through the rocks below the eastern end of Jebel Shams. They consist of a series of 18 rock-cut cisterns, actually a volcano, trachyte, and dammed in places to take advantage of the underlying rock pattern. They were built to give some stability in the supply of water in an area where they usually live for years without serious rain. That in size and depth, but the capture and collect the rain in the mountains that surround it. Its capacity is 90 million liters. Tanks are connected by a series of small water systems with the overflow of a tank moving on to the next in line for transporting water right in the heart of the crater. It is believed to have been built, while the control of Aden is in the hands of the Himyarite, sometimes around the first century AD. But from one port of Aden height in antiquity would have needed an adequate amount of fresh water may exist before that date in Sabaean times.

Yemen Tourism Promotion Board.

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