Surame Cultural Landscape
Ways Of Travel
By car and motorbike
Reason For Loving Place
There were 14 gates to Surame City. These gates were categorized as seven great gates and seven smaller gates. The great gates connected the city with the outside world, while the seven smaller gates connected different sections of the city. Six hundred years after it was destroyed some of the gates are still standing at the site. One of the standing gates is referred to as Dashe Tree Gate. The stone arrangement of the city gates, security posts, the narrow paths leading into the city through the gates, the two concentric stone walls, rectangular palace walls and the enclosures built to fortify it against external attacks, are some of the awesome features that still exist at the site till today.
Nice Things About Place
At Surame, there are many other features like watchtowers, security outposts, and the graves where ruling class personalities and commoners were buried. There are also wells that used to supply water to the city and the king’s palace. Due to neglect of several years these wells had been filled with sediments. Despite the seeming extinction of its ancient tombs, you will still see clear signs of the place being inhabited for decades. This is a clear indication of Hausa civilization.
What To Bring
["Camera to capture the sights and take selfies with","Sun shades and a hat","A bottle of water"]
Quote About Place
["Largest ancient built stone walls in the whole of Africa-P.K Darling"]
Reason To Recommend Place
It is regarded as one of the world’s wonders of the human civilization, ingenuity and creativity. It was declared as an ancient Nigeria’s National Monument in 1964 and added in the Cultural and Natural category of the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2007.
