Alwaeira Castle

During the Crusader occupation of the East, they built several castles and forts from Antioch in the north, passing through the fortress of the fort, to the south, Karak and Shobak, up to the Petra region where Baldwin I, king of the Latin kingdom in Jerusalem, built the fortress of Al-Wa'ira fort to be able to control the area extending southeast of the Dead Sea And cutting commercial and military roads and pilgrim caravans between the Levant, Egypt and the Hijaz, Salah El-Din forces liberated the castle in 1188 AD, shortly after the liberation of the Shoubak Castle. Ruby al-Hamwi reminded her of his lexicon in 1225. She then deserted and was mentioned only by the inhabitants of the area.[2]

Although the building is demolished, it can be described from existing remains and foundations. Where the rectangular castle is surrounded by a wall with a tower on the northeastern side and its entrance on the south side. The area of the tower from the inside is 4 x 5 m. It is surmounted by a barrel barrel and in the eastern wall, it has a fluency, that is, a gap for arrows, 120 cm long and 15 cm wide. In the northwestern corner of the castle there are the remains of a church built on a single hall system measuring 13 m by 6 m. A room is connected to it from the eastern side. There is another tower in the western wall. Fences, towers and the church were built of small stones whose dimensions are 40 cm x 30 cm. They are not precisely carved and do not have a lot of homogeneity in terms of how they were carved.[3]