Israel
18 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 — #27 of 9,079 worldwide — 86 km south-east. The oldest dated site in the circle is Tower of David, founded 150 BC.
The 100 km circle reaches into 3 countries — Israel (12), Palestine (5), 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 · #205 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 · #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 · 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…
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…
54 km east · Palace & château
Mukataa is an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center, particularly in Palestine.
37 km south-west · Ruin
Qasr al-Basha, also known as Pasha's Palace Museum, Radwan Castle, and Napoleon's Fort, was a historic building in the Old City of Gaza, Palestine.
39 km north-east · Ruin
Qula was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 15 km northeast of Ramla.
55 km east · Ruin
Herod's Palace at Jerusalem was built in the last quarter of the 1st century BC by King Herod the Great of Judea from 37 BC to 4 BC.
43 km north-east · Ruin
Migdal Afek, also Migdal Tsedek, is a national park on the southeastern edge of Rosh HaAyin, Israel.
47 km east · Ruin
Castel National Park is an Israeli national park, which consists of a fortified summit in the Judean Mountains, at the site of the former Palestinian…
86 km south-east · Ruin · #27 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 · Ruin
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 · Ruin
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 Castle Map atlas maps 18 landmarks (2 fortresses · 1 palace & château · 15 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 #27 of 9,079 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 150 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.
