Castles of the Levant

Beaufort

The whole Southern Front; from left to right: tower 6, tower 5, the great hall indicated by an arrow, the lower court. We see after tower 5 the footpath that lead to the lower court before the excavations of 1937. Entrance A was in the foreground at the foot of Tower 5. The end of the ramp that ascended from the halls uden the lower court appears to the right of the white horse,Phot. 39e demi-Brigade du Levant

Les Châteaux des Croisés en Terre Sainte II: La Défense du Royaume de Jérusalem, étude historique, géographique et monumentale, vol. "Album", by Paul Deschamps, Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique, Tome XXXIV, Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1939. Plate LIX

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