The causeway
Over the water.
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A small fortress on a rocky islet off the harbour of Sidon, built by the Crusaders in 1228 and joined to the shore by a narrow stone causeway about 80 m long. A temple to the Phoenician god Melqart once stood on the spot. The Mamluks partly destroyed it when they took the city, then rebuilt it and added the long causeway, and Emir Fakhr al-Din II restored it in the seventeenth century. Today it is two towers joined by a wall. Roman columns were laid sideways in the outer walls to strengthen them, and their round ends still show in the masonry. From the top there are views over the harbour, the old city and the sea. Allow half an hour to an hour; tickets are sold at the start of the causeway. The old souks, Khan al-Franj and the Soap Museum are a short walk away.
Over the water.
In the walls.
Over the harbour.
Seafront, Sidon
The Crusaders, in 1228, on a small island once home to a Phoenician temple; the Mamluks rebuilt it and Emir Fakhr al-Din II restored it in the seventeenth century.
