Al Murabbaa Tower

United Arab Emirates


Today sitting rather incongruously in the middle of a traffic roundabout on the busy Corniche Rd, this mud-brick watchtower was built as part of Ajman's coastal defences in the 1940s. You can see black-and-white photos of the tower, taken soon after it was built, in the Ajman Museum.


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