Hunin Fortress

Hunin Fortress (Hebrew: מצודת הונין, literally the fortress of Hunin, Arabic: هونين) is the ruin of a Crusader fortress (castle) in present-day Israel, also known as Château Neuf and elsewhere given as Chastel Neuf (French: literally New Castle, Latin: Castellum Novum).

It lies at an altitude of about 690 metres on a wooded ridge of the Naftali mountains, less than 1 kilometre north of the village of Margaliot and less than 1 kilometre from the border with Lebanon. East of the fortress the terrain falls steeply by 400 metres into the Hula Valley, on the edge of which lies the town of Kiryat Shmona.

Machine-translated from “Mecudat Hunin” on the Czech Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hunin Fortress ranks #6,207 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #20 of the 25 mapped in Israel. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Nabatieh, 18 km away. It is one of the 113 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Levant. See how Israel compares in the castle statistics.

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