A country · 32 places · 4 regions
Bahrain, all of it.
32 curated places across 4 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.
Bahrain reads below in 4 chapters — Capital Governorate, Northern Governorate, Muharraq Governorate and Southern Governorate — in any order you like.
Chapter I · Capital Governorate · 9 places
Capital Governorate
Built on the foundations of successive ancient settlements extending back to the Dilmun Bronze Age civilisation, Bahrain Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising a sixteenth-century Portuguese fortification constructed atop thousands of years of accumulated occupation layers. Archaeological excavations on the surrounding tell have exposed Kassite, Assyrian, and Hellenistic-period remains beneath the visible Portuguese structure. The fort's elevated position above the sea offers views across the northern Bahrain coastline and the city of Manama beyond.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter II · Northern Governorate · 4 places
Northern Governorate
The excavated remains of a Bronze Age temple complex associated with the Dilmun civilisation. Three superimposed temples were uncovered here, once dedicated to a water deity.
✦ November to March · $
Chapter III · Muharraq Governorate · 3 places
Muharraq Governorate
The former capital of Bahrain occupying its own island connected to the main island by a causeway, Muharraq preserves the most intact historic townscape in the country, with the reconstructed Sheikh Isa bin Ali House and the associated pearling trail — part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site — weaving through renovated merchant houses, mosques, and warehouses. The old town's narrow lanes lined with coral-block buildings and traditional mashrabiya lattice screens represent the Gulf's pre-oil merchant urbanism more comprehensively than anywhere else in Bahrain.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter IV · Southern Governorate · 2 places
Southern Governorate
An eighteenth-century fort on the edge of a wide valley, restored with reception halls and a mosque within its walls. From the ramparts the land drops away toward the old town of Riffa.
✦ November to March
Regions of Bahrain
Every place in Bahrain
