Tabuk Castle
Tabuk Castle is one of the stations on the Sham Hajj Road that connects the Levant and the Hijaz. It consists of castles and stations to receive pilgrims, starting from the Halat Ammar Center in Tabuk and extending to Medina.
The castle consists of two floors. The ground floor contains an open courtyard and a number of rooms that open onto it from the north and south sides. There are 8 rooms, a mosque, and a well. There are stairs leading to the first floor, an open mosque, and rooms, as well as stairs leading to the towers used for guarding and monitoring. The lower mosque rises on the southern side. There are also 12 rooms on the northern and western sides. There is a stone gutter on the western side overlooking the courtyard to drain water from the first floor. It is noted that there are archers’ trenches on all sides. There are three stairs, two of which lead to the towers, one on the northwestern side and the other on the southwestern side. They are built of mud bricks and are used for guarding and placing cannons that were fired in celebration of the arrival of pilgrims. The third staircase leads to the area of the second, open upper floor.
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