Touqan Palace — locally called Touqan Castle — is one of the grandest Ottoman-era mansions in the Nablus old city, built by the powerful Touqan family who dominated the city's politics for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The building is privately owned but visitors can sometimes gain entry to the courtyard and garden by knocking and asking politely.
The palace's architecture is typical of upper-class urban Levantine design: a central courtyard with an ornate fountain, reception rooms with high carved ceilings, and a façade decorated with stone inlay work. It gives a vivid sense of the wealth and ambition of the merchant and notable families who shaped Nablus before the twentieth century.