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The Roses of Taif
Each April, Some 2000 farms in the uplands near Taif turn pink. A single species of intensely perfumed, delicate pink flower annually transit forms the rural communities of al-Hada and al-Shafa  into fragrant, roseate splendors.
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Taif city
Taif is a city in Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia at an elevation of 1,879 m (6,165 ft) on the slopes of Sarawat Mountains . It has a population of 1,200,000 people and is the unofficial summer capital. The city is the center of an agricultural area known for its grapes, pomegranate, figs, roses and honey.
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The rose of Taif is virtually identical to the famous Bulgarian "kazanlik" strain whose Turkish name means "suitable for the [distiller's] kettle" and that has its own roots in the Persian rose plantations around Shiraz and Kashan, which in turn supplied fields in Syria. A legend among the growers of the area of al-Hada says that the flower originally came from India.
Since then it has been cultivated in Taif and processed into precious attar of roses and its popular—and even older—counterpart, rose water. The word attar, which is today a synonym for rose oil, comes from the Arabic 'itr, meaning "perfume" or "essence." The first description of the distillation of rose petals was written by the ninth-century philosopher al-Kindi, and more sophisticated equipment was described in the 10th century by al-Razi.
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More than 2000 Farms of Roses
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