Village Al-Qwariyar

Located on top of a high mountain in Wadi Al-Falaja, north of Al-Baha city center and about 23 km away from it, Al-Qawarir village is one of the villages of the Bani Bashir tribe, and is named after the village's first grandfather, “Qawarir”. The village consists of a number of heritage residential buildings, most of which are adjacent to each other and were built on the natural sloping ground. Most of the houses are one- or two-story, abandoned and partially dilapidated. Other buildings are elevated above their neighbors as a result of the steepness of the village's location. The juxtaposition of the buildings resulted in the appearance of the village as an architectural fabric expressive of the local pattern in the layout of the heritage village. A number of modern residential buildings can be observed at the bottom of the hill, away from the old buildings. The walls of the houses were built using stones stacked on top of each other in an artistic way that required professional expertise, and were shortened on the inside with a thick layer of mud and yogurt. The roofs were built using tree trunks and a layer of tree branches, topped with mud and milk, and the supporting center column (mizrahi) was made of a tree trunk in its natural form, as decorations were found in a number of village houses decorating doors and windows, while other houses were devoid of any wooden decorations