The castle is surrounded by a semi-circular frame ...

The castle is surrounded by a semi-circular frame and a number of towers belonging to different civilizations. Inside the majestic castle, we find in front of us an integrated city of buildings, mosques, halls, stores, squares, theater, shops and many antiquities. I was concerned with the castle during the reign of Sultan Al-Zahir Ghazi bin Salah Al-Din, so the main gate and some Installations inside the castle.

The main entrance to the castle consists of a huge building consisting of doors, corridors, defense halls and ammunition, and among the buildings at the top of this building is a large hall, the throne hall, whose facade is decorated with wonderful stone decorations, there are many buildings, rooms, halls, corridors and many monuments inside the castle. In the towers there are many rectangular windows, including large and small ones. These windows overlook the most beautiful view of old Aleppo, which is famous for its covered markets, alleys, churches, mosques, gates and ancient houses.

The Citadel of Aleppo is located in the center of the old city on a hill in the shape of a log cone with its lower base dimensions (550 m * 350 m) and the upper base on which the castle is located is (375 m * 273 m) The castle rises about 50 meters from the city level
It is fortified with a circular wall and contains six towers that overlook a bumpy slope .. in it two towers were built that connect to the castle by basements, and at the bottom of it is a moat surrounding the hill on all sides. Adjacent to the main gate ...
The castle is distinguished by its main entrance, which is a wide, sloping bridge with steps that goes beyond the moat and is carried on a series of eight stone arches, at the outer end of which is a small tower, but at the other end of the bridge and adjacent to the castle there is a large tower that is the main gate that leads to the interior of the castle to the castle seven Armored and iron-coated doors to withstand attackers' fire and strikes.

Inside the citadel there are two mosques, the oldest of which is the Ibrahim al-Khalil Mosque, which was built by Nur al-Din Zanki in 1162 AD over the ruins of a Byzantine church ...
As for the Great Mosque, it was built by al-Zahir Ghazi bin Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi in (1210) AD and contains a square minaret of 20 meters high in the northern part of the Citadel and to the east of the Great Mosque is the Ibrahim Pasha Barrack, which was built from stones extracted from the foot of the hill.

In the center of the castle is the royal palace, whose construction dates back to the thirteenth century AD, in addition to a large bath consisting of ten rooms in which hot and cold water pipes pass, which are made of clay, and there are also tanks to keep water and several wells, some of which are 60 meters deep. Wells are hidden basements. Also inside the castle there is a group of halls with multiple uses, some of which are defensive in nature, such as those overlooking the main entrance and a throne hall dating back to the Mamluk era (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) and the great hall below the level of the castle is accessed by a staircase ... and there are other halls. They were used as warehouses.