Fortifications

Interesting in Acre
Acre - The city building (Town walls)From the central bus station, Acre Street Weissman will take you past the center of culture and city hall to the gaps in the city wall. The wall took its modern form in the XVIII century, when Ahmed al-Jazar. Hence, you should move up the ramp and take a stroll along the city wall to the main gate. In the north-eastern extremity of the wall is located tower Burj el-Kummander, with the help of tools which in 1799 was reflected shock of Napoleon. The tower stands on the foundation of "the accursed tower" with which Richard the Lionheart in 1191 dropped the banner of the Duke of Austria.Before the advent of a break in the wall to the street Weissman in 1910, the main gate was the only entrance to the city by land.