title: Herod's Palace
text: # Herod's Palace
  
  Herod’s Palace may refer to any of several palace-fortresses built (or rebuilt from previous fortresses) during the reign of Herod the Great, King of Judea from 37 BC to 4 BC. Mostly in ruins today, several have been excavated.
  
  * Herod's Palace (Jerusalem), in the northwest corner of the city walls of the Upper City
  * Herod's Palace (Herodium), winter palace at Herodium in the Judean desert 12 kilometers south of Jerusalem
  * Masada, on a small mountain
  * Caesarea Maritima, on a promontory in the sea
  * Three winter palaces at Jericho
  * Machaerus, Hasmonean fortress rebuilt by Herod in 30 BC
  * Cypros Palace near Jericho, named by Herod in memory of his mother, Cypros
  * Alexandrium, a Hasmonean palace which Herod rebuilt lavishly.
  