Cathedral of the Holy Cross (Tyre)

Founded in 1129 as the metropolitan cathedral of Tyre, this was one of the largest and most prestigious churches of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. After the loss of Jerusalem in 1187 it became the principal coronation site of the kings of the 'Second Kingdom', and hosted a number of royal marriages. Tradition — contested among the chronicles — holds that the bones of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who drowned in the River Saleph on his way to the Third Crusade, were interred here in 1190. Destroyed by the Mamluks in 1291 when they took Tyre; substantial ruins of the nave and apse survive on the Phoenician causeway.

Coordinates: 33.2704°, 35.1944°

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