The Semi-Circular Tower
This semi-circular tower was built in 1297-98 by the Mamluk Sultan Husam Al-Deen Lajin on the remains of a Crusader tower to defend the access ramp to the citadel. It has four accurately oriented arrow-slits and an upper platform where a war machine could be located.
Such a hypothesis is supported by Mamluk military treaties and by the discovery of counterweights and missiles of different calibers at the site, findings now exhibited in the Museum
The tower, with its monumental inscription celebrating its construction, along with most of the new imposing fortifications, overlooks the road coming from Damascus, a province politically hostile to the Sultan.
Last update
19.06.2024