The city of Taif occupies a reputation and a great place among the cities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as it is one of the most beautiful tourist cities in the Kingdom due to its mild climate.

The city of Taif is considered the sixth in terms of area, it is about 87.5 square kilometers, and its population is about one million, according to the statistics of 2014, and its official language is Arabic, and the eastern gate of the Two Holy Mosques is considered across Makkah Al-Mukarramah, and it is also the meeting point of roads connected to all regions of the Kingdom Across other regions and cities.

The city of Taif includes a large number of important historical tourist attractions, including the Halima Al Saadia Mosque, which is located in the south of Taif, and the Abdullah Ibn Al Abbas Mosque, which was built at the highest village in the plateau under the rule of the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir to the religion of God Abi al-Abbas Ahmad al-Mudded, and the mosque contains a library for storing books Suspended to facilitate access to science students.

Taif contains the largest Arab market in ignorance and it is the Okaz market where people came from all over the Arabian Peninsula to display their products, and the Arabs came for 20 days from the first Dhu al-Qi'dah selling goods and reciting poems until the 20th of the month, and the residents of the first Okaz market are a tribe Aggression and the Hawazin tribe, and recently, King Faisal called for the formation of geographical committees to locate and revive him again, then Prince Faisal bin Fahd renewed the invitation to revive him, and the Okaz market has become at the present time a historical and touristic landmark that has importance in the region.

It includes a number of important tourist attractions such as the Shubra Palace, which is one of the oldest historical palaces in the city, along with the Sisad Dam that was built during the reign of Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan, who is considered the first Umayyad caliph to rule the Islamic State. Other historical monuments.

The residents of Taif excelled in the arts of architecture, where they built dams and canals to drain water, drilled wells and built castles, forts and towers to protect the city from those who tampered with, and also excelled in Arab inscriptions on the rocks in the tops of mountains and plateaus, in the stomachs of valleys and reefs, and on some of the dams stones.

Many festivals are held on its soil every year, such as the Qataf Al-Ward sectarian festival, the Hada festival, the annual camel racing festival, the Taif Summer Festival, the Taif Winter Festival, and the Al-Bahita Spring Festival, which Al-Ashtari talked about in his book that it is a city whose fruits are raisins, which are good air, and most of the fruits of Mecca Among them, the city is also famous for being the first city in which engineering planning was established, and the first city that the Messenger, peace and blessings of God be upon him, intended, and the first city in Saudi Arabia to land a Saudi plane, and the first city in which a regular school was built to deal with Islamic studies.