Qasr Ben Raqoush

Bin Raqoush Palace is located at the foot of a hill that includes a group of heritage buildings in the village of Bani Sar, which is located about . And one of the oldest Amer, one of the Zahran tribes. The palace is considered one of the historical and tourist landmarks in the region, and one of the oldest villages in the tribe of Bani Rabi, which is one of the ancient villages in the tribe of Bani. Historical palaces with integrated services. The palace consists of a number of buildings that were built in several stages. The first stage (1242 AH): The Bahari House (the old tribal council, armory, library, catering store, dormitories and family councils), the Shami House, the mosque, the school, the main kitchen, the servants' dormitories and a water well. In the second phase (1358 AH), the eastern house or guest house was built The middle house and the reformatory. The palace thus formed an integrated residential system of houses and their annexes, including a school, a mosque, horse stables, watering wells and orchards. The palace has two gates and an external wall about four meters high on the eastern side and seven meters high on the western side. The various palace buildings were constructed using the method of load-bearing walls, which consisted mainly of stones stacked on top of each other in an artistic manner requiring high professional expertise, and this was done by stacking, building, interlocking and assembling stones cut to different sizes (rock fractures). They were then sealed on the inside with a thick layer of clay and mud. The same stones were also used in decorative formations at the top of the facades of the buildings, which are protrusions in the border of the facade mounted on the stones protruding from the building's border and are called (towers) and are used to protect the house from climbing thieves. Roofs were built using tree trunks to form bridges. Tree trunks to form bridges known as (longitudinal masts and from : Then the wooden beams are placed on top of them.