Byblos Castle (Gibelet)

Also known as Gibelet, Château de Gibelet

Seat of the Genoese Embriaco family, who ruled Gibelet as naval magnates from 1100 until the late thirteenth century. A hybrid castrum–turris plan: roughly square curtain walls with four corner towers enclosing a massive central donjon, surrounded by a moat and faced with reused Roman columns. Saladin took it in 1188 after Hattin and partially dismantled it in 1190; the Franks recovered Byblos in 1197 and rebuilt the defences, which repulsed a Cypriot naval assault as late as 1369.

Coordinates: 34.1214°, 35.6481°

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