ID: ICSPCM81 · © Carl Rasmussen · Added: 2022

Crusader Gate

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View looking east, at the inside of the east gate of the Crusader City.

The Crusader City of Caesarea is only 55 acres in size and housed a population of up to 10,000. The prominent moat was built by Louis IX of France in A.D. 1251-1252. But the city fell to the Mamluks in A.D. 1265.

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