Tourism - North of Israel
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Rosh Hanikra
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Rosh HaNikra
The Rosh HaNikra grottos are cavernous tunnels formed by sea action on the soft limestone. The ongoing geological process, spread over thousands of years, began with a series of underground shocks that ripped gapes into the bedrock. Rainwater penetrated the gaping rifts, dissolving them and forming within tunnels and sea caves (grottoes) that relentlessly proceeded to expand because of the intensity of the waves slamming the rock during a storm. The total length of the grottos is some 200 meters. They branch off in various directions with some interconnecting segments. In the past, the only access to them was from the sea and experienced divers were the only ones capable of visiting. Today a two minutes ride on cable car that descends from a height of 70 meters above sea level at a steep angle of 60 degrees, takes visitors to see the grottos. This cable car ride is the steepest in the world and the main means by which people can approach this beautiful and mysterious site.
Acra - an ancient coastal city
Acre's Old City has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The city’s fascinating historical heritage compose of a rare blend of East and West that creates an atmosphere of authentic sights and unique meeting of art and religion. As one of the most important port cities of the ancient world, the walls of the city, its fortresses and citadels, churches and mosques, tell the history of the many rulers who governed it, built it and fought for it. Acre’s most prominent sites include ruins from the Hellenistic-Roman period and buildings from the Crusader and Ottoman periods: Al Jazar Mosque, the buildings of the Order of Saint John, the subterranean Crusader city, Khan Al Omdan, the Turkish Baths, the Bahai Temple and more. Acre’s surrounding ancient walls survive to date from the pamshment of both men and sea, and its well known seawall, built in 1750, by Daher El-Omar, is still protacting the city from the winter storms of the Medetarnian Sea.
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