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Ajloun Castle
A 12th-century Ayyubid castle built by Saladin's general on a hilltop to control the Jordan Valley iron mines and counter Crusader expansion.
43 km · about 50 min drive
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Balāţah
West Bank, Palestine · Asia
About Balāţah
Balāţah sits on the route: 10 minutes from Sālim, 43km from Ajloun Castle.
Balāţah is in West Bank, Palestine, with about 17,000 people. The nearest town is Sālim, about 4 km away.
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What is there to see near Balāţah?
Within an hour or so of Balāţah: Ajloun Castle (43 km), Church of the Holy Sepulchre (48 km), Dome of the Rock (48 km), Jerusalem Old City (49 km).
Are there any good drives near Balāţah?
The nearest famous roads are King's Highway and Scorpions Ascent (Ma'ale Akrabim).
Where is Balāţah?
Balāţah is in West Bank, Palestine, about 4 km from Sālim.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 17,146
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Palestine
- Region
- West Bank
- Timezone
- Asia/Hebron
- Coordinates
- 32.2121, 35.2856
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Worth the detour from Balāţah
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Christianity's holiest site, built on the traditional locations of Jesus's crucifixion and burial.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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Dome of the Rock
The iconic gold-domed Islamic shrine on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, built in 691 CE over the sacred Foundation Stone.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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Jerusalem Old City
A walled sacred city of one square kilometer containing holy sites for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam within four historic quarters.
49 km · about 55 min drive
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Western Wall (Wailing Wall)
The holiest site where Jews can pray, a 2,000-year-old limestone remnant of the Second Temple retaining wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.
49 km · about 55 min drive
ancient ruins
Caesarea Maritima
A spectacular Roman-era port city with a grand amphitheater, aqueducts, and crusader fortifications on the Mediterranean coast.
49 km · about 55 min drive
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Yad Vashem
Israel's official memorial to the Holocaust, with deeply moving exhibits and a striking modernist museum built into a mountainside.
50 km · about 55 min drive
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Old Jaffa
One of the oldest port cities in the world with 4,000 years of history, now an artists' quarter with galleries, restaurants, and views of Tel Aviv's skyline.
53 km · about 60 min drive
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2 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 71 kmMount ArbelA cliff dropping 380m to the Sea of Galilee, with fortified caves cut into its face by Jewish rebels and a lookout taking in the whole lake to the Golan. Israel's only base-jumping mountain.
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