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Round city of Baghdad, Baghdad — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Round City of Baghdad is the original core of Baghdad, laid out for the Abbasid court by Caliph al-Mansur.
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The Round City of Baghdad is a historic core, not a lodging quarter. Beds are gone. Nothing of the caliphal walls survives to stay beside, so visitors drawn to the site of al-Mansur's foundation base themselves in central Baghdad and reach the old ground from there.
Stay in Baghdad for the wider Abbasid story. The House of Wisdom once stood on this same original core.
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What are the main landmarks in Round city of Baghdad?
The defining feature of the Round City of Baghdad is the House of Wisdom. That library stood within its grounds, the scholarly heart of the Abbasid court under al-Mansur and the caliphs who followed. It anchored the whole plan.
As the original core of Baghdad the quarter also carried the ceremonial name City of Peace, the title by which the Abbasid administration knew the walled foundation.
What is the history of Round city of Baghdad?
The Round City of Baghdad was built between 762 and 766 by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur as the official residence of his court. It came first. Around this walled original core the wider city of Baghdad then grew, spreading well beyond the founding ground that the Abbasid administration named City of Peace.
Within its walls stood the House of Wisdom. That library made the caliphal foundation a centre of learning long after al-Mansur.
Where is Round city of Baghdad?
The Round City of Baghdad marks the original core of Baghdad, the walled ground that al-Mansur set at the start of the Abbasid foundation.
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Updated July 2026