Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles (Tripoli)

Also known as Château du Mont-Pèlerin, Castellum Montis Peregrini, Qal'at Sān Jīl, Citadel of Tripoli

Headquarters of the County of Tripoli for a century and a half, built from 1102 onward by Raymond IV of Toulouse on Mount Pilgrim two miles from the old city to blockade Tripoli. The city finally fell to the Crusaders in July 1109. Sultan Qalawun captured it in 1289, burning the Mont Pèlerin quarter; the hilltop lay abandoned for eighteen years before the Mamluks regarrisoned it. Very little original Frankish masonry survives — the present citadel is largely a nineteenth-century Ottoman restoration.

Coordinates: 34.4358°, 35.8331°

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