“Man dreams, business is born.” In Arabia, the dream of the poems of Fernando Pessoa is the raw material for the work. The idea of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman to build a new city began to be embodied on earth: in the Tabuk region, a 170-kilometer line is being formed from the Red Sea to the mountains and the desert. the longest building in the world.
The “Line”, a set of interconnected buildings that will form a city 170 kilometers long, “Linya” in Portuguese, will stretch from the Red Sea inland to the outskirts of the city of Tabuk, the center of the region where this revolution took place. Saudi Arabia began to take over. The complex of adjacent buildings, covered with glass along the entire length, should cost 500 billion euros and rise 500 meters above the ground. A strip 200 meters wide, which should accommodate six to nine million people, including spaces for housing, work and recreation, with watercourses, gardens, parks and various sports facilities.
According to a 2021 estimate, documents accessed by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) put the end date for the initiative in 2050. The project, conceived by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, consists of two parallel rows of buildings that will stretch along a 170-kilometer line, crossed from one end to the other by a high-speed train that promises to transport residents from the sea to the mountains, or vice versa, in about 20 minutes.
