The Heritage Village is one of the most important visitor attractions in the city. It’s more like a (former) fortress, “palace, fort” and a tourist flagship that includes an impressive five-story building. Already its external dimensions are impressive. The structural condition of the complex is well-kept, which finds its expression in the heavy ogival wooden portal. The massive, clay-coloured longitudinal front is framed by two equally massive exterior towers, one of which is a round tower with ring-shaped band structures that give it a fluted surface and a very rustic character. The opposite exterior tower, on the other hand, has a roughly square base shape, with a smooth clay plaster finish like the rest of the complex. The Heritage Village is owned by a private citizen who has furnished it with a variety of collected items, ranging from household items, clothes, old radios, cars from the 1960s (including the Cadillac of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Makkah (Mecca)), old photographs, coins, stamps, jewellery, Coca-Cola and soda bottles, etc. Almost more impressive than the collection is, above all, the just mentioned atrium-like covered interior of the main building, which extends over all floors. It is set up as a restaurant in the foyer and serves, among other things, larger receptions for Saudi society. Visitors can also dine there; however, there is no “expectation” of any kind for the visitor to have a meal there.
