Concentrated in AlUla (3), Red Sea (1), Jeddah (1).
ENTRIES8
CHRONOLOGY17 dated events
Caliph Uthman makes Jeddah the port for pilgrims to Mecca; the walled town that becomes Al Balad grows around the landing
The wall of Jeddah holds against a Portuguese siege
Omar Nasseef Effendi, governor and merchant, begins Bayt Nassif on Souq Al Alawi; it is finished in 1881
Abdulaziz Ibn Saud enters Jeddah in December and takes Bayt Nassif as his residence for about ten years
Merchants leave Al Balad for the new districts along the coast; the coral tower houses begin to fail
Muhammad Nassif turns the house into a private library of 16,000 books, open to anyone who calls on him
Historic Jeddah, Al Balad, is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list
Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah, is inscribed by UNESCO — 650 historic buildings, 36 mosques and five souqs
Saudi Arabia's PIF forms the Boutique Group to convert palaces and historic buildings into hotels
A royal decree creates the Jeddah Historic District Programme with its own budget
The restoration of 56 buildings is announced, the first stage at $13.3m
Our Habitas opens at AlUla, built to be dismantled without trace
Banyan Tree AlUla opens in the Ashar valley
Sharaan by Jean Nouvel is cut into the sandstone at AlUla ⚑ opening announced
Desert Rock opens in Saudi Arabia, cut into a mountain by Oppenheim
Three restored coral houses — Jokhdar, Al-Rayyis and Kedwan — open as heritage hotels in Al Balad
Jokhdar, Al-Rayyis and Kedwan open as heritage hotels in restored coral houses at Al Balad
Notes on the series. Hotel-native institutions enter as cross-references inside the article of the house that holds them, not as separate codes — a bar or spa receives its own entry only when it has become a name in its own right. Seasonal and fashion collaborations are recorded as dated lines within a house, never as entries. Residential clinics and estates, however wellness-led, belong to the main register: they sell nights. Entries carry permanent LHL-S codes once published; drafts await verification by two independent sources. · Published by LVXVRY under Editorial Manifesto LHL-001 v1.6.