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A WALKING TOUR OF SAFED
Kadosh Dairy
Ashkenazi Ari
Abuhav Synagogue
Synagogue
Caro Synagogue
Beit HaMeiri Citadel
Museum Park
Yerushalayim
HaMeiri Street
Tombs of the Dairy
Kabbalists General Safed
Exhibition
Artists’ Quarter
Museum of Hungarian-
Speaking Jewry
MORNING
Start at the elaborately painted
Ashkenazi Ari Synagogue,
Akko (Acre)
9 founded in the 1500s and rebuilt
after the great earthquake of
MAP B4 • Visitor Center,
Festival Garden • (1700) 708 020 1837. Walk south through the
Synagogue Quarter, past beautiful
• Most sites open 8:30am–4/5pm daily Judaica shops, to the Caro
The mostly Arab Old City, enclosed Synagogue, named after
by solid walls, a broad moat, and the Rabbi Yosef Caro, compiler of
Mediterranean, has a citadel, souk an important code of Jewish law.
(market), mosques, Turkish khans, Backtrack a bit and head down
and a hammam from the 1700s; the hill to the Abuhav Synagogue,
hidden deep below is a subterranean endowed with an ornately carved
modern courtyard. Stop off at
Crusader city. Old Akko has great Kadosh Dairy for a cheesy snack
fish restaurants near the harbor and on the way to the Tombs of the
a famous hummus joint. The lovely Kabbalists, among them the Ari.
Baha'i Gardens outside the city hold
the Baha'i faith's most sacred site. AFTERNOON
After a picnic lunch of g'vina
CHRIST’S MINISTRY Tzfatit (a local cheese) from at
HaMeiri Dairy, visit the Beit
Jesus did much of his preaching by the HaMeiri Museum for a look at
shores of the Sea of Galilee. It is where life in the city during Ottoman
he is believed to have walked on water, times. Then walk to the Artists'
fed the 5,000, given the Sermon on the Quarter, home to the General
Mount, and expelled a legion of devils. Safed Exhibition, which exhibits
a selection of works by some
60 local artists. Visit individual
Nazareth
0 artists' studios to see paintings,
calligraphy, ceramics, glasswork,
MAP C5
Israel's largest Arab city is best and sculpture, much of it with
a Jewish mystical theme.
known as Jesus' childhood home. Then, for something completely
Most of the major Christian sites and different, head to the Museum
the souk are in the bustling Old City, of Hungarian-Speaking Jewry,
a maze of alleyways between the whose evocative exhibits focus
Greek Orthodox Church of the on the richness of Jewish culture
Annunciation (Church of St. Gabriel) in parts of Central Europe. Enjoy
a casual dinner of shawarma or
and the Catholic Basilica of the falafel on Yerushalayim Street
Annunciation (see p42). Hidden down after walking through the Citadel
narrow passages are the Synagogue Park, a Crusader fortress at the
Church, the White Mosque, Ottoman- highest point in town.
era mansions, and great restaurants.
See map on p90
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