The marvels of nature and the genius of medieval Arab military architecture have given northern Jordan two of the most important ecological and historical attractions in the Middle East: the sprawling pine forests of the Ajlun-Dibbine<\/strong> area, and the towering Ayyubid castle at Ajlun, which helped to defeat the Crusaders 8 centuries ago. Ajlun Castle<\/strong> (Qal\u2019at Ar-Rabad) was built by one of Saladin\u2019s generals in 1184 AD to control the iron mines of Ajlun, and to deter the Franks from invading Ajloun. Ajloun Castle dominated the 3 main routes leading to the Jordan Valley and protected the trade and commercial routes between Jordan and Syria; it became an important link in the defensive chain against the Crusaders, who, unsuccessfully spent decades trying to capture the castle and the nearby village. <\/p>\n The castle<\/strong> was conceded in the 13th century to Salah ed-Din Yousef Ibn Ayoub, ruler of Aleppo and Damascus, who restored the northeastern tower. These expansion efforts were interrupted in 1260 AD, when Mongol invaders destroyed the castle, but almost immediately, the Mameluk Sultan Baybars re-conquered and rebuilt the fortress. <\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The marvels of nature and the genius of medieval Arab military architecture have given northern Jordan two of the most important ecological and historical attractions in the Middle East: the sprawling pine forests of the Ajlun-Dibbine area, and the towering Ayyubid castle at Ajlun, which helped to defeat the Crusaders 8 centuries ago. Ajlun Castle [...]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/caption.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
El castillo original ten\u00eda 4 torres, saeteras incorporadas a los gruesos muros, y estaba rodeado por un foso de 16 m de ancho promedio y hasta 15 m de profundidad.
En 1215 d.C., el oficial mameluco Aibak ibn Abdullah ampli\u00f3 el castillo tras la muerte de Usama, a\u00f1adiendo una nueva torre en la esquina sureste y un puente que todav\u00eda se puede ver decorado con relieves de palomas.<\/p>\n
Si tiene binoculares, tr\u00e1igalos a Jordania. Podr\u00e1 apreciar no solo la variada vida silvestre en las reservas naturales, sino tambi\u00e9n las fant\u00e1sticas vistas desde lugares como Ajloun.
Diez soldados de Salah ed-Din custodian el castillo todos los d\u00edas de la semana. Se colocan en los 4 niveles de puerta diferentes que tiene el castillo. Dos est\u00e1n en el techo donde vuela el mameluco amarillo. Las escaleras de asedio apoyadas en la pared se suman a la atm\u00f3sfera de guerra.<\/p>\n