Qasr Al Hosn Festival

Al Hosn Festival runs each January into early February at the Al Hosn site around Qasr Al Hosn, Abu Dhabi's oldest standing structure, with eighteen artisan demonstrations, sadu weaving, pottery, embroidery, metalwork, seven workshops in the Freej area, heritage performances at Majlis Al Shilla, falconry and camel experiences, and a fifty-vendor souq, tracing the fort's evolution from a seventeenth-century watchtower into the city's founding landmark.

Eighteen artisan demonstrations and seven dedicated workshops run inside the same historic footprint where Abu Dhabi's oldest standing structure, a seventeenth-century watchtower that grew into Qasr Al Hosn, once stood as the settlement's defensive core, giving Al Hosn Festival a setting few heritage festivals can claim.