Welcome to The Ancient City Of Harar

This sensational city will shake up and blast your senses. With its 368 alleyways squeezed into just 1 sq km, its countless mosque and shrines, its coffee scents meandering through the street, its animated markets, its superb architecture, its charming people and its unique unforgettable ambience, the old wall city will make you feel like you are floating through another time and space. Discover Ancient Harar.

The Holy city of Harar is Listed by UNESCO as part of the cultural heritage has a wonderful History!

Received International recognition by UNESCO in 1989 as part of the cultural heritage not only of the city but of humanity as a whole.
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Harar a city of mosques, minarets, and holy shrine, is also remembered, in Europe, as a city visited, in the mid-nineteenth century, by the British Orientalist, Richard Burton, translator of the Thousand and One Nights. The settlement was later the abode , a generation or so later, of the renowned French poet, Arthur Rimbaud. The City of Harar is an ancient and holy city. Always an important trading centre, the city is famous for its ancient buildings, its great city walls, and as a centre of learning and Muslim scholarship. The city is well known for its superb handicrafts that include woven textiles, basket ware, silverware and handsomely bound books, and Harar has been a place of pilgrimage from all over the world.

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