Abu Dhabi - the capital city - it is spread among lifeless sands and dry rivers on the shores of the Persian Gulf. It is the largest and richest of the emirates that make up the UAE.
The showcase of this half-million city, the capital of the state, is the embankment, consisting of sparkling skyscrapers. There are enough attractions in Abu Dhabi, one of the most interesting is the Oil Exhibition, which audiovisually tells about the development of the city. Here is Kornichi, a specially reconstructed shipyard The largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, it is called the "Garden City of the Gulf" - there are so many man-made gardens and parks based on the irrigation of each tree and that (desalination plants are used for irrigation.) In this sense, only Al Ain is comparable to it. Port Zeid serves as a gateway to the sea, like Rashid in Dubai and Mina Khaled in Sharjah. There is, of course, an international airport. However, Acting as the main city of the oil-producing state, Abu Dhabi is not a major center of recreation or cheap trade.
Abu Dhabi is called the Manhattan of the Middle East. Perfectly straight streets of the city form a grid with six main highways. The most spectacular buildings are grouped along the coastline or are located on parallel streets: Sheikh Khallf, Sheikh Hamdan and Sheikh Zayed. The feature that distinguishes Abu Dhabi from any other modern city and which reflects its Muslim character is a large number of mosques in the city itself and its environs. From anywhere in the city you can see several fantastically decorated minarets at once. The visitor is struck by the abundance of greenery in Abu Dhabi. Along the main road to the city and the entire embankment, planting lines stretch out to cover arid soil, eucalyptus trees and palm trees grow. In the city itself there are many grassy lawns, ornamental shrubs. And in the evening, you should definitely take a walk along the promenade and delight your eyes with the game of water jets in fountains that have fancy names - “Dalla”, “Pearls”, “Flying Swans”.
The merger of the past, present and future is expressed in the peaceful coexistence of mosques, museums, modern supermarkets, eastern markets, educational institutions, cultural and art centers. For the last 300 years, this emirate has been ruled by the Al Casimi family, once the most powerful in the entire Persian Gulf. Over the past 20 years, the city has greatly increased in size, incorporating suburban villages. Now Abu Dhabi covers an area of 70sq. km, industrial quarters and suburbs stretched for several kilometers in the direction of deserts to the north and east. The center of the city still remains near the bay.
Abu Dhabi was founded in 1760. There is a beautiful legend about the foundation of the capital of the UAE. Arabs-hunters from one of the oases pursued a gazelle. The gazelle long looped through the desert, and then led the hunters to the shore of the Persian Gulf, where it threw itself into the water and wade across the island. The hunters followed her, and a gazelle led them to a spring with beautiful fresh water. In gratitude, the hunters gave the gazelles life, and the settlement founded near the source was called the "father of the gazelle", which in Arabic sounds like Abu Dhabi.
The city of Abu Dhabi, located on an island and separated from the mainland by a narrow strait, is considered to be a park city. Due to the abundance of green spaces, the average temperature in the city is 1-1.5 degrees lower than in the nearby desert. The successful exploitation of oil and gas fields has made it possible to invest enormously in the city’s infrastructure: roads, schools, embankments. Over the past decades, Abu Dhabi has become one of the most sophisticated and luxurious cities in the world.