On the mountainsides of Fifa Governorate in Jazan Region, generations of residents have turned steep slopes into stepped farming terraces and built their villages and homes around them. Over time, the terraces have become part of the community's memory and the place's identity.

The terraces carry farming know-how handed down through families: preparing the soil, making the most of rainwater, and growing the crops Fifa is known for, led by Saudi coffee, along with corn, millet and aromatic plants. These practices show how local people learned to work with the mountain terrain.

Fields and houses spread along the slopes give the mountain villages their distinctive shape, so the terraces serve both as farmland and as a cultural landmark that reflects residents' building skills and adaptation to their surroundings.

Today the terraces are among Fifa's tourism and cultural draws. Visitors can see a way of farming and building that grew out of the mountain itself, in a landscape where villages and tiered fields merge.

Fifa's terraces remain part of the governorate's cultural heritage and living evidence of residents' bond with their land, while their steps rising between villages and peaks give the mountain scenery a striking look.