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Cresting a hilltop, guarding the coastline, walling a village or securing a dried-out
river bed, there is barely a town in Arabia without some kind of crumbling battlement.
Oman has some of the best-preserved of the Peninsula's forts in Bahla, Nizwa, Nakhal
and Rustaq, but for a whole day out, Bahrain's Qala'at al-Bahrain (
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, with its
museum, coffeeshop and nighttime illuminations, is hard to beat. Learn your forts (milit-
ary only) from your castles (fortified residence) before exploring some of these magnifi-
cent buildings.
