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If you drive from the Petra Visitor Center to Beidha, you will see the castle ruins to the left of the road.
Vaux Moise (in Arabic al-Wuʿaira) was an outpost of the Crusader Fortress Montréal in Shobak, 25 km north. The stronghold over Wadi Musa was built in 1116 under the reign of King Balduin I of Jerusalem on the remains of a Nabataean or Roman predecessor and was strongly extended in 1142. After the defeat of the crusaders by Saladin's army at Hattin (1187), it was conquered by the Ayyubids in 1188.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Deep canyon with remarkable rock-cut buildings and unique murals, which was part of an important Nabataean trading base, 6 km north of the centre of Petra.
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