Manama

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Manama

2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Manama.

UNESCO sites in Manama

• Pearling, Testimony of an Island EconomyCultural · 2012 · 3 km

  The site consists of seventeen buildings in Muharraq City, three offshore oyster beds, part of the seashore and the Qal’at Bu Mahir fortress on the southern tip of Muharraq Island, from where boats used to set off for th…

• Qal’at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of DilmunCultural · 2005 · 7 km

  Qal’at al-Bahrain is a typical tell – an artificial mound created by many successive layers of human occupation. The strata of the 300 × 600 m tell testify to continuous human presence from about 2300 BC to the 16th cent…