🇮🇱 Israel
40 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins within 100 km of the city centre — every one on the interactive map, with photos, distances and directions.
The closest is Tel Afula, 1 km south of the city centre; the most famous is Beaufort Castle (Lebanon) — #162 of 7,738 worldwide — 83 km north. The oldest dated site in the circle is Amman Citadel, founded 1800 BC.
The 100 km circle reaches into 5 countries — Israel (23), Palestine (9), Jordan (4), Lebanon (3), Syria (1).
22 km east · Ruin
Belvoir Castle, also called Coquet by the Crusaders, also Kochav HaYarden and Kawkab al-Hawa, is a Crusader castle in northern Israel, on a hill on…
1 km south · Castle
Tel Afula, Al-Fula – a Templar fortress lying in the Jezreel Valley, at the crossing of the routes from Jerusalem and Tiberias.
49 km north · Ruin
Montfort is a ruined Crusader castle in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, about 22 miles northeast of the city of Haifa and 10 miles south…
52 km south-east · Castle
Ajloun Castle, medieval name Qalʻat ar-Rabad, is a 12th-century Muslim castle situated in northwestern Jordan.
35 km west · Castle
Château Pèlerin, also known as Atlit and Magdiel, is a Crusader fortress and fortified town located about 2 kilometres north of the modern Israeli…
59 km south · Fortress
Alexandreion, or Alexandrium, called Sartaba in the Mishna and Talmud and Qarn Sartaba in Arabic, was an ancient hilltop fortress constructed by the…
54 km north-east · Ruin
Chastelet also known as Beytulahzan was a castle located beside Jacob's Ford, a ford of the upper Jordan River in Israel.
41 km north-west · Fortress
The Hospitaller commandery of Saint-Jean-d'Acre is a monumental complex founded by the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, also known as the Knights…
44 km north-east · Fortress
The Citadel of Safed is a now-defunct fortress castle situated on the peak of the mountain housing the modern city of Safed.
33 km west · Ruin
Cafarlet or Capharleth or Kafr Lam is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type.
34 km west · Ruin
Le Destroit is a ruined medieval fortified road station, built by the Templars of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the early 12th century CE,…
47 km north-east · Fortress
Birya Fortress is a fortress built by the Jewish Palmach paramilitary during the British Mandate near the Jewish village of Birya and the Arab…
42 km south-west · Ruin
Caco is a 12th-century Crusader castle situated in present-day Israel, 15 km from Netanya and 3 km from the "Utopia" park and Kibbutz Bahan.
46 km north · Ruin
King's Castle is a former Crusader castle in Mi'ilya in Galilee in the north of Israel.
83 km north · Castle · #162 worldwide
Beaufort or Belfort Castle, known locally as Qal'at al-Shaqif or Shaqif Arnun, is a Crusader fortress in Nabatieh Governorate, Southern Lebanon,…
93 km south · Fortress · #199 worldwide
The Tower of David, also known as the Citadel, is an ancient citadel and contemporary museum, located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of…
92 km south · Fortress · #275 worldwide
The Golden Gate or Gate of Mercy is the only eastern gate of the Temple Mount, and one of only two Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem that used to…
93 km south · Fortress · #303 worldwide
The Walls of Jerusalem surround the Old City of Jerusalem. In 1535, when Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent…
92 km south · Fortress
The Damascus Gate is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a…
92 km south · Ruin
The Antonia Fortress was a citadel built by Herod the Great and named for Herod's patron Mark Antony, as a fortress whose chief function was to…
93 km south · Fortress
Jaffa Gate is one of the seven main open gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. The name Jaffa Gate is currently used for both the historical Ottoman…
92 km south · Fortress
Lions' Gate, also St Stephen's Gate, is one of the seven open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It leads into the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.
95 km south-east · Ruin
The Amman Citadel on Citadel Hill is an archaeological site on an L-shaped hill towering over Downtown Amman, in the central part of the capital of…
82 km south · Ruin
Hisham's Palace, also known as Khirbat al-Mafjar, is an important early Islamic archaeological site in the city of Jericho, in the West Bank in…
64 km south-west · Ruin
Apollonia, known in the Early Islamic period as Arsuf and in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem as Arsur, was an ancient city on the Mediterranean…
93 km south · Fortress
The Dung Gate, also known as Bab al-Maghariba, Mughrabi Gate, Moroccan Gate or Silwan Gate, is one of the Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem.
+ 14 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q152462.
The Castlemap atlas maps 40 landmarks (4 castles · 16 fortresses · 3 palaces & châteaux · 17 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Afula, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Tel Afula, a castle 1 km south of the city centre.
Beaufort Castle (Lebanon), ranked #162 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 83 km north from Afula.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Amman Citadel, founded 1800 BC — 95 km south-east. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Umm al-Fahm (16 km) · Haifa (36 km) · Hadera (39 km) · Tulkarm (41 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
