Editing Database: Tayyarahs

[[File:DTA Tayyarahs.png|thumb|250px|A classic tayyarah extending across a street of the Old Town.]]
AlUla Old Town developed over time, becoming a maze of narrow lanes lined with small two-storey houses built side-by-side. This arrangement, with limited space to expand individual houses, gave rise to a particularly original and ingenious way to extend, the tayyarah: with the consent of the neighbour opposite, construction of a room on the upper floor that spans the street provided an additional room for the house owner who built it. A side benefit was the shade provided for the lane below.
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