Museums aside, few historical edifices showcase Omani martial skills and the grandeur of Omani fortifications in times bygone like Al Jalali Fort. Fewer still offer such a wealth of insights into Oman's rich heritage and culture like this splendid edifice standing sentry-like over Muscat bay.Al Jalali Fort is now a grand museum set in an authentic, but grandiose ambience, befitting such visitors like royalty, heads of state and other foreign dignitaries.
A heavy, gold-lined visitors' book maintained at the fort records the visits of eminent personalities and their impressions of this great structure.Indeed, Al Jalali Fort, is perhaps the finest of Oman's historical fortifications in the capital area and its environs. From its vantage position atop a rocky outcrop, the fort commands unparalleled views of the harbour and the old city, including Muscat's most prestigious landmark — His Majesty the Sultan's Al Alam Palace.
Together with its 'twin' — the Mirani fort, perilously straddling another rocky outcrop just a stone's throw away — the Al Jalali Fort once served as a bastion against foreign seaborne aggression in its heyday. The so-called twin forts, in conjunction with the veritable defences of the Muttrah fort and a host of fortified structures and watchtowers along the rocky ridges of the bay, made Muscat virtually impregnable. They collectively supplemented the old city's natural defences offered by the massed rows of rocky hills fringing the bay.
A heavy, gold-lined visitors' book maintained at the fort records the visits of eminent personalities and their impressions of this great structure.Indeed, Al Jalali Fort, is perhaps the finest of Oman's historical fortifications in the capital area and its environs. From its vantage position atop a rocky outcrop, the fort commands unparalleled views of the harbour and the old city, including Muscat's most prestigious landmark — His Majesty the Sultan's Al Alam Palace.
Together with its 'twin' — the Mirani fort, perilously straddling another rocky outcrop just a stone's throw away — the Al Jalali Fort once served as a bastion against foreign seaborne aggression in its heyday. The so-called twin forts, in conjunction with the veritable defences of the Muttrah fort and a host of fortified structures and watchtowers along the rocky ridges of the bay, made Muscat virtually impregnable. They collectively supplemented the old city's natural defences offered by the massed rows of rocky hills fringing the bay.
I visted "Al-jalali & Al-merani" forts and there were maizing forts ...
ReplyDeleteAnd I want to vist more forts in Oman