Tourist Trails The Inner Gate

The Inner Gate

This gate, built by the Crusaders, protected the innermost part of the castle with its monuments, the aristocrats and their courts.

Its walls show the signs of multiple reconstructions over time, until the late Ottoman epoch.

The remains of a groin vault date to the years between 1173 and 1187, when the Crusaders, after a first siege by the Ayyubids, adapted their defenses to the new weapons of the Islamic army.

After an earthquake in 1212, the facade was rebuilt by the Ayyubid rulers.

During the Great Arab Revolt the gate became a village house, whose narrow doorway we still cross today.