Ara village

Ara village is located in Al-Baha area, which is one of the villages of Bani Dhabi from Sarat Ghamed. It consists of a number of small apartment houses, most of which are one-story. The heritage village was built on the foot of a hill with a volcanic rocky land, and the group of old houses overlaps with many modern buildings that wrap around it as well. The predominant proportion of old houses is partially destroyed and abandoned. The construction was carried out using compact volcanic stones, which are of different sizes and various shapes and colors, and they were installed on top of each other in a technical way that requires high professional experience, and their shorts were carried out from the inside with a thick layer of clay and milk. The roofs were also built using tree trunks with a layer of tree branches above it, and above it mud and milk. A number of houses found roofs based on rectangular wooden columns topped by a piece of the largest area that resembles the crown of the column and was known locally as (Al-Mazrah). Al-Mazrah is considered a distinctive architectural element of this architectural style in that area. The general traditional schematic appearance of the heritage village disappears as a result of the presence of many modern buildings within the heritage community.