Walk through Jaffa nighttime

Jaffa. Mysterious ancient city, which is more than four thousand years old It is said that Patriarch Noah himself built the famous Ark here, and the hero Perseus saved the beautiful Andromeda here. Here Saint Peter was taken into custody by the Romans and even Napoleon visited this city.

We will start our walk at the clock tower built by Sultan Abdul Hamid II in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of his reign in 1906, pass the main (Sea) mosque of Jaffa, talk about the facade of the new seraya (Ottoman Empire), blown up during the War of Independence and remember that only a hundred and a little years ago on the site of a modern fashionable restaurant stood the world’s first gymnasium, where the teaching of secular disciplines was conducted in Hebrew.

We will walk along the street of Jaffet - the son of Noah, after whom, by the way, the city is named, climb to Antiquity Square and even higher to the observation deck with the amazing sculpture of Daniel Carney. Admiring the panorama of night Tel Aviv, with light-drenched skyscrapers, we will go to the ancient Egyptian buildings more than three thousand years ago and through the artists’ quarters we will go down to the Jaffa port.

In the port, you can have dinner in one of the fish restaurants and complete a walk on the embankment, from where you can see the very rocks to which, according to one of the myths of ancient Greece, Andromeda was chained.

If it is not too late and the strength remains, you can reach Sarona, a former German settlement on the territory of modern Tel Avia. Today, Sarona is not only the center of shopping and entertainment for the whole family, it is also the place from which in many ways the modern Jewish state began.