Israel
28 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 Antonia Fortress, 1 km north of the city centre; the most famous is Masada (#26 of 9,035 worldwide) 53 km south. The oldest dated site in the circle is Amman Citadel, founded 1800 BC.
The 100 km circle reaches into 3 countries: Israel (14), Jordan (10), Palestine (4).
1 km west · Fortress · #206 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…
1 km west · Fortress · #302 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…
1 km north · 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…
24 km north-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…
1 km west · 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.
9 km west · 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…
20 km north-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.
53 km south · Ruin · #26 worldwide
Masada is a mountain-top fortress complex in the Judaean Desert, overlooking the western shore of the Dead Sea in southeastern Israel.
44 km south-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.
41 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…
39 km north-west · Ruin
Qula was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 15 km northeast of Ramla.
43 km north-west · Ruin
Migdal Afek, also Migdal Tsedek, is a national park on the southeastern edge of Rosh HaAyin, Israel.
58 km 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…
80 km south-east · Castle
Kerak Castle is a large medieval castle located in al-Karak, Jordan. It is one of the largest castles in the Levant.
69 km 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…
62 km north-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…
95 km north · 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…
77 km north-east · Castle
Ajloun Castle, medieval name Qalʻat ar-Rabad, is a 12th-century Muslim castle situated in northwestern Jordan.
74 km east · Ruin
Mshatta, also known as Qasr al-Mushatta, is the ruin of an Umayyad winter palace, probably commissioned by Caliph Al-Walid II during his brief reign.
70 km east · Palace & château
Raghadan Palace, the first Hashemite structure in Jordan, was built by King Abdullah I, the founding monarch of the country.
79 km 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.
86 km south-east · Fortress
Qasr Bshir is an ancient Roman fortification in what is now Jordan. Isolated in an area of the desert rippled with shallow valleys that drain into…
85 km south-east · Ruin
Betthorus was a Roman legionary fortress on the Limes Arabicus. It is located in today's El-Lejjun, Karak Governorate, Jordan, north-east of Al-Karak.
100 km north · Ruin
Cafarlet or Capharleth or Kafr Lam is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type.
66 km east · Fortress
Rujm Al-Malfouf is an ancient structure consisting of a round stone tower and several adjacent storerooms, located in the northern side of the Jabal…
+ 3 more in this range: every one is on the interactive map.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q1218.
The Castle Map atlas maps 28 landmarks (3 castles · 4 fortresses · 1 palace & château · 20 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Jerusalem, measured straight-line: a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Antonia Fortress, a ruin 1 km north of the city centre.
Masada, ranked #26 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking: 53 km south from Jerusalem.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Amman Citadel, founded 1800 BC: 69 km east. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Yatta (39 km) · Nablus (49 km) · Tel Aviv (55 km) · Ashdod (55 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
