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Al-Ahsa Oasis, an Evolving Cultural Landscape
['Unesco World Heritage Centre']
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
The oasis landscape that evolved over millennia presents a way of life typical of the Gulf region of the Arabian Peninsula.
This cultural landscape consists of gardens, canals, springs, wells, an agricultural drainage lake, as well as historic buildings.
The landscape of Al-Ahsa in the past and now represents the different phases of the oasis’s evolution and the interaction of natural and cultural heritage.
Al-Ahsa Oasis cultural landscape materializes the vivacity and modernity of this specific land-use tradition and shows its continuing relevance at the local and regional scale.
Al-Ahsa oasis, with its different and interconnected sectors, was the largest oasis in the world and the largest producer of dates even before the 1960s and the introduction of “mass production” techniques.
['landscape'
'property'
'evolving'
'cultural'
'management'
'agricultural'
'oasis'
'human'
'urban'
'alahsa'
'water']