Places & facts         Special events         Hotels & rest          Money & cost	Places in Jordan   Amman - Petra - Jerash - Aqaba - Castles - Pella - Um Qeis - Madaba - Wadi Rum - Dead Sea - Ajlun - Shobak - Kerak   Shobak The Castle of Ash-Shoubak It is one of the Crusader castle which were built to control the road between Damascus and Egypt. It was captured by the Ayyubid Saladin in A.D. 1189. It is a huge castle with many circular towers and contains a rock cut deep well.