Crusader Atlas

Crusader castles in Israel — a complete catalogue

The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, between its founding in 1099 and the fall of Acre in 1291, dotted modern Israel with castles, towers, and fortified manors at every road junction, watering place, and defensible hill. Many survive — some as national parks restored to give visitors the sense of what a Crusader fortress actually looked like, others as picturesque ruins, and a few preserved within or beneath modern Israeli cities.

This page catalogues every fortified Crusader site within the modern borders of Israel that the atlas has been able to identify. They range from the great concentric strongholds — Belvoir, Atlit, Montfort, Belmont — through major walled towns (Acre, Caesarea, Tiberias, Arsuf), down to small fortified manor houses and watchtowers along the coastal plain and the Galilean foothills. Each entry links to a fuller dossier with photographs, coordinates, and historical notes drawing on Pringle's catalogue and current archaeological reporting.

Sites covered (58)

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