Haifa and the Northern Coast Features

Haifa and the Northern Coast Features

• Top Reasons to Go
  

  Caesarea: Originally built by Herod the Great, these 2,000-year-old ruins occupy a strategic spot on the sea. They include Byzantine bathhouses... Read more

• Akko's History
  

  History clings to the stones in the Old City of Akko, with each twist and turn along its streets telling another tale. The city's history begins... Read more

• The Druze
  

  The Druze are an Arabic-speaking people who practice a secret religion; they form one of the most intriguing entities in the mosaic of Israel's... Read more

• Haifa's History
  

  First mentioned in the Talmud, the area around Haifa had two settlements in ancient times. To the east, in what is today a congested industrial... Read more

• Herod's Amazing Port at Caesarea
  

  The port's construction at Caesarea was an unprecedented challenge—there was no artificial harbor of this size anywhere in the world. During... Read more

• Caesarea: Roman City
  

  Herod the Great gave Caesarea its name, dedicating the magnificent Roman city he built to his patron, Augustus Caesar. It was the Roman emperor... Read more