The village of Sawad

Al-Sawad village is located on the top of a natural hill in the Sarawat Mountains, one kilometer away from the center of the village. The village's houses were built according to the masons' special treatment in reinforcing the facades of the buildings. As a result, the buildings appear monolithic and the corridors are narrow to fit a single story, and they are adjacent and mostly abandoned. Their walls were built using basalt stones stacked on top of the natural top of the mountain slope, which necessitated the need for defense. The need for defense. Most of its houses are made up of . Most of its houses are built on top of each other in an artistic way that requires a high level of professional expertise, and were reinforced from the inside with a thick layer of mud and mud. The construction was done using stone according to the shape of its natural section, which is of varying sizes and shapes, and was installed in a high-quality technical manner and in a monolithic manner to ensure the cohesion of the walls. The roofs were also built using tree trunks and a layer of tree branches, and on top of that mud and mud, and in a number of houses there were roofs resting on rectangular wooden columns topped with a larger piece that resembles the crown of the column and is known locally as (Al-Mizrah). The mizrah is considered a distinctive architectural element of this architectural style in this region. The doors and windows of the houses were characterized by their simplicity and the presence of a small number of decorations, and their exterior appearance is characterized by its heritage nature as a fortress on the top of a mountain