Visual Icons in Jazan Province

Visual Icons in Jazan Province referto natural and architectural landmarks and edifices in Jazan Province, located southwest of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. These icons are historically and culturally associated with the place where they are located and represent an architectural or natural icon thereof. In fact, they can be used as symbols referring to the province they represent within the framework of Saudi culture in general.

Urban landmarks built in Jazan Province represent architectural icons characterizing the province. These landmarks include the Administrative Tower of Jazan University, one of the highest architectural icons overlooking the Red Sea, standing at one hundred m tall and comprising eighteen floors.

Wadi Jazan Dam is among the province's urban landmarks. It is one of its tourist attractions. It was inaugurated in 1971. It is connected to a lake known as the Dam Lake, where floodwaters are collected from five valleys. The reservoir holds fifty-one million m of floodwater.

Landmarks built to highlight the province's artistic and cultural aspects include the Castle Roundabout, located on one of Jazan's ring roads. It features a structure shaped like a castle or fortress, hence symbolizing the province's architectural history.

The natural terrain of Jazan Province is diversified, ultimately forming the province's natural icons. These icons include Farasan Island, located about forty km from Jazan, and surrounded by an archipelago known as the Farasan Islands, consisting of about two hundred islands, making up 15.6 percent of the total number of islands of Saudi Arabia, amounting to 1,285 islands.

The island houses several archaeological landmarks, including al-Qessar built of sandstone and dating back to the Roman Era, Luqman Castle, al-Rifai House, and al-Najdi Mosque.

In the context of highlands, Jazan Province is known for its rugged mountains and evergreen nature throughout the year. Landmarks include al-Qahar mountains, and green nature throughout the year, including al-Qahr Mountains or Zahwan Mountain in ar-Rayth Governorate. The mountain was named as such due to its rugged terrain. It is characterized by its contiguous cylindrical shapes and houses three-thousand-year-old monuments. The Province is also known for other highlands, including the Fayfa Mountains.

The cultivation of coffee is widely spread in the mountainous highlands of Jazan Province, located within the "Coffee Belt" area. Coffee estates in the area amount to around 1,985, covering most mountainous governorates, including al-Da'ir, Fayfa, al-Idabi, ar-Rayth, Harub, and al-Aridah, ultimately forming the province's agricultural icons.

Saudi Khawlani coffee is one of the coffee varieties produced in Jazan. It has become one of the province's agricultural and natural icons. It is one of the world's most expensive varieties of coffee, which is mainly due to the oil layer surrounding coffee beans and their distinctive aroma. In 2022, knowledge and skills related to the cultivation of coffee were inscribed under the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).