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The watchtower inside goes back to the late 18th century, making it the oldest stone building in the city.
The square fort where Sheikh Khalifa was born, with a glass exhibition hall inside the courtyard and a 21,000-palm oasis behind it.
Quieter than the big oasis, with a 1930s souq, a mud-brick tower turned arts centre and a 4,000-year-old tomb on its edge.
A public garden built around the Hili Grand Tomb, a 4,000-year-old ring of carved stone 12 metres across.
A late 18th-century fort that served as the ruler's palace and later a police station, with its wind towers and watchtowers kept.
An 1890s mud-brick fort with a room of Wilfred Thesiger's Empty Quarter photographs, set in a park you can picnic in.
The ruling family's old fort stands in the middle of the restored Heart of Sharjah, with a weapons gallery and displays on the town's history.
Shaded lanes run through 1,200 hectares of date palms watered by falaj channels that still work after 3,000 years.
The country's oldest museum reopened in October 2025 around the 1910 Sultan Fort, with Bronze Age gold from the Qattara tomb inside.