Life of Saladin

CAIRO, The Citadel
• Burg al-Muqattam
• Saladins well
• Burg as-Suffa
• Burg al-Alwa
• Burg Kirkilyan
• Nameless tower
• Burg at-Turfa
• Burg al-Matar
• Burg al-Muballat
• Nameless tower
• Burg al-Muqusar
• Nameless tower
• Burg al-Imam
• Nameless tower
• Burg al-Haddad ->
• Idem, inside ->
• Nameless tower
• Burg as-Sahra'
• Inner walls
• Demolished tower
•• The catapult
Mosques
• Gate: Bab al-Futuh
• al-Hakim
• al-Nasir Mohammad
• al-Salih Ayyub
• al-Ashraf Barsbay
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• The Bazar

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Al-Malik an-Nasr Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (the Victorious King, Rectitude of the Faith, Joseph, Son of Job)

The large, round tower next to the Bab (Gate) al-Gabal. (Ottoman)
Within the Citadel, the BIR YUSUF (Well of Joseph - i.e. Salah ad-Din).
The Burg as-Suffa was built by al-Kamil around Salah ad-Din's walls
The 'View Tower' constructed by Salah ad-Din. Size six meters in diameter
Tower of the 40 Serpents, the best preserved of al-Kamil's square towers
A nameless tower of Salah ad-Din
'Masterplece Tower', the largest of al-Kamil's towers. 30 meters wide
Salah ad-Din's twin towers, defended the Bab al-Qarafa (Cemetery Gate)
At the corner of the southern walls is Salah ad-Din's 'Paved Tower'
Built by the Ottomans to block a small postern gate
Salah ad-Din's Burg al-Muqusar (Concave or Pavilion Tower)
A nameless tower of Salah ad-Din
The twin-towered Burg al-Imam defended the eastern entrance
A nameless tower of Salah ad-Din (centre of the pictures)
-> and the Burg ar-Ramla (Sand Tower)
(Blacksmith's Tower), were first built by Salah ad-Din
A nameless tower of Salah ad-Din (centre of the pictures)
Salah ad-Din's Burg as-Sahra' (Desert Tower) was refortifled twice
Ayyubid gates to the Northern Enclosure, best seen from the upper walls
The site of one of Salah ad-Din's towers. Demolished 1501 by Ganbalat
At display in the Citadel, the tool of siege and fighting

Massive fortified gates and section of wall mark Northern limits of old city
Built for the eccentric Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim, author of strange edicts
With a Gothic doorway, brought back from a Crusader church in Acre
The madrasa (theological college) and tomb of Negm-al-Din al-Salih Ayyub
Barsbay, conqueror of Cyprus, had a fleet and kept control of spice trade

The Bazar of Cairo through the Bab (Gate) al-Futuh in the North Wall