11 places
Citadels, crusader fortresses and Ayyubid military engineering.
The fortress at the city's edge
Old Damascus · Damascus
The fortress on the mound
Old Aleppo · Aleppo
The great crusader castle
Al-Hosn · Homs
A fortress of the mountain frontier
Masyaf · Hama
A ridge above the Orontes
Shayzar · Hama
Syria's only inhabited island
Arwad · Tartous
A keep above the town
Safita · Tartous
A fortified mound in the north-west
Harim · Idlib
A crater-top citadel
Salkhad · As-Suwayda
A castle on a lake peninsula
Qalaat Jabar · Raqqa
Byzantine walls at a river gorge
Halabiye · Deir ez-Zor
