🇮🇱 Israel
24 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 Le Destroit, 13 km south of the city centre; the most famous is Beaufort Castle (Lebanon) — #169 of 8,133 worldwide — 75 km north-east. The oldest dated site in the circle is Cafarlet, founded c. 850.
The 100 km circle reaches into 5 countries — Israel (16), Lebanon (5), Syria (1), Jordan (1), Palestine (1).
14 km south-west · Fortress
Château Pèlerin, also known as Atlit and Magdiel, is a Crusader fortress and fortified town located about 2 kilometres north of the modern Israeli…
13 km north-east · 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…
21 km south · Ruin
Cafarlet or Capharleth or Kafr Lam is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type.
13 km south · 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,…
33 km north-east · 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…
55 km south-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…
57 km north-east · Ruin
Toron, now Tibnin or Tebnine in southern Lebanon, was a major Crusader castle, built in the Lebanon mountains on the road from Tyre to Damascus.
49 km east · Ruin
The Citadel of Safed is a now-defunct fortress castle situated on the peak of the mountain housing the modern city of Safed.
51 km 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…
54 km south · 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.
33 km north-east · Ruin
King's Castle is a former Crusader castle in Mi'ilya in Galilee in the north of Israel.
36 km south-east · Ruin
Tel Afula, Al-Fula – a Templar fortress lying in the Jezreel Valley, at the crossing of the routes from Jerusalem and Tiberias.
75 km north-east · Castle · #169 worldwide
Beaufort or Belfort Castle, known locally as Qal'at al-Shaqif or Shaqif Arnun, is a Crusader fortress in Nabatieh Governorate, Southern Lebanon,…
72 km south · 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…
82 km north-east · Fortress
The Nimrod Fortress, also called Nimrod Castle, is a castle built by the Ayyubids and greatly enlarged by the Mamluks, situated on the southern…
88 km south-east · Castle
Ajloun Castle, medieval name Qalʻat ar-Rabad, is a 12th-century Muslim castle situated in northwestern Jordan.
90 km north · Castle
Sidon's Sea Castle was built by the crusaders in the thirteenth century as a fortress of the Holy Land.
91 km south-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…
62 km east · Ruin
Chastelet also known as Beytulahzan was a castle located beside Jacob's Ford, a ford of the upper Jordan River in Israel.
87 km south · Ruin
Qula was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 15 km northeast of Ramla.
82 km south · Ruin
Migdal Afek, also Migdal Tsedek, is a national park on the southeastern edge of Rosh HaAyin, Israel.
89 km north-east · Ruin
The Castle of Saint Louis, also known as Qalaat al Muizz or the Land Castle, is a ruined castle in Sidon, Lebanon.
68 km north-east · Ruin
Hunin Fortress is the ruin of a Crusader fortress in present-day Israel, also known as Château Neuf and elsewhere given as Chastel Neuf.
62 km north-east · Ruin
Doubay Castle is a Crusader castle located near the town of Shaqra in Jabal Amel.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q41621.
The Castlemap atlas maps 24 landmarks (3 castles · 4 fortresses · 17 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Haifa, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Le Destroit, a ruin 13 km south of the city centre.
Beaufort Castle (Lebanon), ranked #169 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 75 km north-east from Haifa.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Cafarlet, founded c. 850 — 21 km south. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Afula (36 km) · Umm al-Fahm (37 km) · Hadera (42 km) · Tyre (53 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
