.Old Acre is
surrounded by walls in the shape of an irregular pentagon, with three
principle wall lines and secondary fortifications (moats, counter walls,
external outposts and so forth). One wall has survived virtually intact,
while only parts of the others remain. The wall system was built in
stages between 1750 and 1840.
The first wall that was built in Acre during the Ottoman
Period was built by Dahar El-Omar in the years 1750 – 1751. This wall
was built in great haste, in many cases while renovating and repairing
the remains of the Crusader wall, but also included new sections. When
the work was done the wall encircled the entire city of Acre on both the
land side and the sea side. This was a thin wall (approximately one
meter thick) whose height ranged from 10 to 13 meters.
The wall included towers and khans, unprotected by a moat
or battery. There were two gates in the wall: the Seria Gate in the
northwestern part of the city and the Sea Gate (or Damascus Gate) in the
southeastern part. The most heavily fortified section was in the
northern wall, which was the site of the palace of Dahar (the Acre
Fortress), which was surrounded by a 5.5 meter wide moat
