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Shobak Castle, the Crusader fortress of Montreal

Petra & the south

Shobak Castle

Crusader "Montreal", a lonely castle on a hill between Dana and Petra with a secret stairway to a spring.

  • Included in the Jordan Pass

King Baldwin I built Shobak in 1115 as the first Crusader castle east of the Jordan. After a long siege it fell to Saladin in 1189, and the Mamluks later rebuilt much of what you see today, including Arabic inscriptions on the towers.

Bring a torch to descend the long rock-cut staircase that once led to the castle's water supply.

Don't miss

  • Mamluk inscriptions
  • Rock-cut stairway
  • Views over the Shobak plateau
Shobak Castle, the Crusader fortress of Montreal Stone arches of Shobak Castle, known as Montreal Montreal, also known as Shobak Castle, in southern Jordan

Tours that visit Shobak Castle

Getting around

Private transfers, drivers and guides that cover this area.

Nearby

Desert landscape of Wadi Feynan Feynan A candle-lit ecolodge at the foot of Dana, among Bedouin camps and 5,000-year-old copper mines. 1 tour Mountain scenery of the Dana Biosphere Reserve Dana Biosphere Reserve Jordan's largest nature reserve: a stone village on the edge of a canyon that drops 1,500 metres to the desert. 2 tours Columned chamber carved into rock at Siq al-Barid Little Petra (Siq al-Barid) A Nabataean suburb of Petra with a painted ceiling 2,000 years old – quiet, free and just 15 minutes from Wadi Musa. 4 tours Al-Khazneh, the Treasury of Petra, carved in rose-red rock Petra The rose-red Nabataean city carved into the cliffs – a UNESCO site and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. 17 tours