If we start with 'You can eat and shop in and around the once-magnificent and heavily fortified Crusader city, with its enormous ramparts and cathedral.', does it make sense to conclude with 'The city has remained abandoned and desolate since ancient times. '
You can eat and shop in and around the once-magnificent and heavily fortified Crusader city, with its enormous ramparts and cathedral.###The city has remained abandoned and desolate since ancient times. 