Arwad Castle

It is & nbsp; Central Castle, central Arwad Island, Tartous Governorate. It was built on the ruins of Phoenician buildings, and during the successive historical ages, such as the Assyrian, Pharaonic, Babylonian, Persian and Greek era. The Romans resisted a long time, then the Arabs opened it in 640 AD, the origin of the name and the beginning & nbsp; Arwad (Greek Arados) and Arad in Phoenician and means the shelter, which is a small island on the Syrian coast opposite the city of Tartous, and includes many archaeological monuments and historical monuments, including: & nbsp; Arab Ayyubid tower , And it is called the coastal castle, and there is the Phoenician wall, which is a huge stone wall surrounding the island from all its sides, such as surrounding the bracelet with the wrist, and it was built to protect the city from the danger of marine storms and to repel the invasions it was facing & nbsp;