Syria - Tartus: the citadel of the Crusaders

The ancient city of Phoenician origin (Antaradus) taken from the Muslims by the Crusaders keeps alive vestiges of this passage which lasted two centuries (end of the end of the 12th century) and which completely shaped it, transforming it into a bastion of Frans, one of the most strategic of the Mediterranean, where, thanks to its port, it was the link with Cyprus and from there with the Christian West. In 1152, it passed into the hands of the Templars who took charge of his defense as they did for several other fortified towns and isolated citadels of Syria. Saladin the Ayyubid, succeeding in removing the city, can not come to the end of the impregnable Donjon surrounded by a wide moat and equipped with war machines.