Masyaf
Masyaf (town)
ConfirmedWell-knownApproximate area
- On screen
- Masyaf village below the Assassin fortress; opening/closing memory blocks
- Where
- Masyaf, Hama Governorate, Syria
- Type of site
- Living town – a place to walk rather than a single visitor site.
- Time & access
- Half a day if combined with the castle. Walkable on foot from the castle; reached by road from Hama (c.40 km).
- Nearest location
- Masyaf Castle – directly above the town.
In the game
The village below the Assassin fortress in the opening and closing memory blocks. The real town is far larger and modernised; the game's compact hillside village is a stylisation.
The place today
Living modern town; historic core much altered.
What to look out for
- The old stone houses at the foot of the castle (where they survive)
- the mixed religious fabric: mosques, churches and the Ismaili community's places of worship
- the way the castle rock dominates every street
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