🇮🇱 Israel
25 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 Minat al-Qal'a, 3 km south-west of the city centre; the most famous is Masada — #22 of 7,738 worldwide — 86 km south-east. The oldest dated site in the circle is Tower of David, founded 149 BC.
The 100 km circle reaches into 3 countries — Israel (14), Palestine (10), Jordan (1).
3 km south-west · Ruin
Minat al-Qal'a is a medieval coastal fort protecting the port known as Ashdod-Yam, which was historically separate from Ashdod proper but whose…
55 km east · 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…
55 km east · 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…
55 km east · 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…
55 km east · 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…
55 km east · 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…
55 km east · 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…
55 km east · 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.
47 km north · 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…
55 km east · 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.
54 km east · Palace & château
Mukataa is an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center, particularly in Palestine.
55 km east · Fortress
Zion Gate (Hebrew: שער ציון, Sha'ar Zion, باب النبي داود, Bab an-Nabi Dawud), also known in Arabic as Bab Sahyun or Bab Harat al-Yahud, is one of the…
55 km east · Fortress
Herod's Gate is one of the seven open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It connects the Muslim Quarter inside of the old city to the eponymic…
+ 5 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
86 km south-east · Ruin · #22 worldwide
Masada is a mountain-top fortress complex in the Judaean Desert, overlooking the western shore of the Dead Sea in southeastern Israel.
97 km east · Ruin
Machaerus was a Hasmonean hilltop palace and desert fortress, rebuilt by Herod and now in ruins, in the village of Mukawir in modern-day Jordan.
77 km east · 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…
83 km north-east · Fortress
Alexandreion, or Alexandrium, called Sartaba in the Mishna and Talmud and Qarn Sartaba in Arabic, was an ancient hilltop fortress constructed by the…
97 km north · Ruin
Cafarlet or Capharleth or Kafr Lam is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type.
67 km north-east · 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.
73 km east · Fortress
Cypros was a fort of Herod the Great. It stood on Tell Aqaba, north-west of the Dead Sea, just south-west of Jericho.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q171639.
The Castlemap atlas maps 25 landmarks (11 fortresses · 2 palaces & châteaux · 12 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Ashdod, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Minat al-Qal'a, a ruin 3 km south-west of the city centre.
Masada, ranked #22 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 86 km south-east from Ashdod.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Tower of David, founded 149 BC — 55 km east. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Ashkelon (17 km) · Tel Aviv (34 km) · Rahat (46 km) · Jerusalem (55 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
