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Sights at the Old City Walls

Garden Tomb
Muristan
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Originally the site of an 8th-century Some believe this – and not the
pilgrim hospice, Muristan has one of Church of the Holy Sepulchre –
city’s oldest churches, St. John the to be the site of Jesus’ crucifixion.
Baptist, and close by, the Lutheran The garden is an island of serenity.
Church of the Redeemer, whose
Rockefeller Museum
bell tower offers amazing views. 7
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The Cardo
2 Suleiman St • (02) 628 2251
Built in the 1930s and managed by
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In Byzantine times, this was the city’s the Israel Museum, this archeology
main thoroughfare. Excavations and museum has Crusader-era marble
reconstructions have turned it into lintels from the Church of the Holy
an exclusive shopping arcade. Sepulchre, 8th-century beams from
Al-Aqsa, and stucco figurines from
Lady Tunshuq’s Palace
3 Hisham’s Palace in Jericho (see p76).
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Zedekiah’s Cave
The Mamluks’ distinctive ablaq 8
technique – using bands of alternate MAP P3 • (02) 627 7550
colored stone – can be seen here. Zedekiah is said to have escaped
The three soaring door ways are from the Babylonians in 586 BC
inlaid with marble, and there is via this massive cave. Herod also
stalactite decoration on the windows. quarried it for building materials.
Hurva Square
City of David
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Believed by archeologists to be the This square is dominated by
location of King David’s capital, this the rebuilt Neo-Byzantine Hurva
site has turned up finds that include Synagogue. An adjacent minaret is
houses from as far back as the 10th all that remains of the 14th-century
century BC. Don’t miss the tour of Mosque of Sidna Omar.
Hezekiah’s Tunnel (see p48). Valley of Jehoshaphat
Convent of the Sisters
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of Zion
This valley, where it is believed that the
MAP P3 • Via Dolorosa dead will be resurrected on the Day of
Situated below Ecce Homo Arch, this Judgment, contains the so-called Tomb
convent contains the Struthion Pool of Zechariah, with a pyramidal roof, and
and the flagstone “lithostratos.” the conically roofed Absalom’s Tomb.
Valley of Jehoshaphat

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