Israel
34 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, 16 km north-east of the city centre; the most famous is Beaufort Castle (Lebanon) — #167 of 9,079 worldwide — 97 km north. The oldest dated site in the circle is Amman Citadel, founded 1800 BC.
The 100 km circle reaches into 5 countries — Israel (22), Palestine (4), Jordan (4), Lebanon (3), Syria (1).
24 km north-west · Ruin
Cafarlet or Capharleth or Kafr Lam is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type.
16 km north-east · Ruin
Tel Afula, Al-Fula – a Templar fortress lying in the Jezreel Valley, at the crossing of the routes from Jerusalem and Tiberias.
59 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…
48 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…
36 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…
58 km east · Castle
Ajloun Castle, medieval name Qalʻat ar-Rabad, is a 12th-century Muslim castle situated in northwestern Jordan.
29 km north-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…
55 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…
56 km south · Ruin
Qula was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 15 km northeast of Ramla.
52 km south · Ruin
Migdal Afek, also Migdal Tsedek, is a national park on the southeastern edge of Rosh HaAyin, Israel.
46 km north · 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…
60 km north-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.
29 km north-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,…
26 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.
+ 1 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
97 km north · Castle · #167 worldwide
Beaufort or Belfort Castle, known locally as Qal'at al-Shaqif or Shaqif Arnun, is a Crusader fortress in Nabatieh Governorate, Southern Lebanon,…
83 km south · 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…
83 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…
82 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…
96 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…
76 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…
67 km south · Palace & château
Mukataa is an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center, particularly in Palestine.
97 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…
79 km north · 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.
97 km south-east · Palace & château
Raghadan Palace, the first Hashemite structure in Jordan, was built by King Abdullah I, the founding monarch of the country.
70 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.
83 km south · 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.
+ 7 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q168245.
The Castle Map atlas maps 34 landmarks (2 castles · 7 fortresses · 2 palaces & châteaux · 23 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Umm al-Fahm, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Tel Afula, a ruin 16 km north-east of the city centre.
Beaufort Castle (Lebanon), ranked #167 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 97 km north from Umm al-Fahm.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Amman Citadel, founded 1800 BC — 96 km south-east. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Afula (16 km) · Hadera (23 km) · Tulkarm (25 km) · Nablus (34 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
