Ancient Riyadh.. a sea of palm trees and lush gardens that surpass Damascus

Traveler William Gifford Palgrave flirted with the beauty of Riyadh two and a half centuries a

The Western traveler William Gifford Palgrave describes Riyadh in 1862/1279 AH saying: (Edifices also appeared to us here and there that caught the eye with their amazing roofs.. and over the entire place, and on an area of three miles of the surrounding plains, especially from the west and south, a sea of palm trees appeared to us rising in the middle of well-irrigated green gardens, while the melodious sounds of the waterwheels reached our ears while we were at a distance of a quarter of a mile from the nearest city walls.. If one of the readers had seen Damascus .. and seen the Ghouta from the heights above Mezzeh, then he would have an idea very close to the Riyadh valley when he sees it from the north).