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Sirocco Tower

record-breaking drop tower at Six Flags Qiddiya City

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ138565242 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sirocco Tower is a drop tower located at Six Flags Qiddiya City in Qiddiya City, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia. The ride has held the world record for tallest freestanding drop tower since its opening on December 31, 2025.

History

On April 4, 2018, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation announced the development of a new park in Riyadh. Later, on August 26, 2019, the Qiddiya Investment Company unveiled plans for the 79-acre park's design. Among the rides announced were Falcons Flight, the world's tallest, fastest, and longest roller coaster, as well as Sirocco Tower, the world's tallest freestanding drop tower. The park opened on December 31, 2025.

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The public source identifies “Sirocco Tower” as record-breaking drop tower at Six Flags Qiddiya City. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sirocco, Tower and record-breaking.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sirocco, Tower and record-breaking providing the first useful test.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q138565242. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025, 2018 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sirocco Tower” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.