Kerak lies about 150
Km south of Amman. It is famous of its crusader fortress in
the center of
underground galleries,rooms and secret passageways and its thick
definsive walls pierced by narrow arrow slits where crusader archers
held out bravely but in vain for over 100 years.
It was the crusaders who made Kerak famous. The fortrees was built
in 1142 by Payen Le Boutellier, the lord of Montreal. He made
Kerak the new capital of the province because it was situated on the
king's highway, Where it could control all traffic from north and
south.
