Looking at the old town from down below Nalut seems as if it was built on the roof of the world. Its stratigec position was chosen by the Turks as a defence against the invasion ( at that time, 1850 ), of the arabs. Nalut‘s town center has moved three times over a period of four centuries higher and higher up the plateau where today the modern town can be found. What seems to be a castle ( the Ksar ), is infact a reinforced granary, where the people of Nalut kept all their food stuff in a safe and secure place when they left the town to take their cattle to graze and during their harvest time when they transferred themselves to the caves built in the rock face.