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1 Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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2 Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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3 Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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4 Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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5 Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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6 Acre (Acco, Akko),
Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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7 Acre (Acco, Akko),
Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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8 Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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9 Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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10 Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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11 Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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12 Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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13 Baha'i Garden at Bahji
גן בבהג'י
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14 City Wall
חומת העיר
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15 The site of the Templar fortress
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16 The site of the Templar fortress
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17 Market (Spices)
תבלינים
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18 Mosque of Jezzar Pasha
מסגד אל ג'זאר
جامع الجزار
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19 Mosque of Jezzar Pasha
מסגד אל ג'זאר
جامع الجزار
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20 Khan el Umdan
ח'אן אל עומדאן
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21 Khan el Umdan
ח'אן אל עומדאן
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22 Museum entrance
מוזיאון
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23 The Citadel (Museum)
מוזיאון
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24 Palace of the head of the Knights of Malta
מוזיאון
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25 Courtyard Citadel
מוזיאון
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26 Museum
מוזיאון
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27 Museum
מוזיאון
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28 Museum
מוזיאון
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29 Museum
מוזיאון
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30 Fleur de Lis
מוזיאון
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31 Refectory
מוזיאון
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32 Refectory
מוזיאון
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33 Refectory
מוזיאון
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34 Underground passage / tunnel
מוזיאון
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35 Underground passage / tunnel
מוזיאון
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36 Underground passage / tunnel
מוזיאון
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37 Hamam El-Basha (Turkish Bathhouse)
מוזיאון
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38 Hamam El-Basha (Turkish Bathhouse)
מוזיאון
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39 Hamam El-Basha (Turkish Bathhouse)
מוזיאון
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40 Hamam El-Basha (Turkish Bathhouse)
מוזיאון
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41 Hamam El-Basha (Turkish Bathhouse)
מוזיאון
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42 Hamam El-Basha (Turkish Bathhouse)
מוזיאון
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43 Pisan port
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44 Pisan port
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45 Pisan Port
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46 Acre (Acco, Akko)
העיר העתיקה
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47 St.John's Church
כנסיית סנט ג'ון
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48 St.John's Church
כנסיית סנט ג'ון
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,<br> Baha\'i Garden at Bahji' , 'Mizra Hussein Ali, the Baha\'u\'llah (Glory of God) promoted a movement committed to the unity of humanity and the fundamental oneness of all religions. <br>The ascension of Baha\'u\'llah is commemorated on May 29, the day that Baha\'u\'llah died in 1892, and is buried in the grounds of his house at Bahji in the north-eastern suburbs of Acre (Acco, Akko), where he had lived in exile. His burial place in Bahji is considered the holiest shrine of the Baha\'i world.<br>The entrance to the gardens is 2 km north of Acco, from the Acco-Naharia highway.'))
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' , 'The old city of Akko was fortified for the first time in the days of Ahmed Ibn Tulun (835-884CE). The wall was fixed and improved in 1071 in preparation for the invasion of the Seljuk Turks and again in 1099 in anticipation of the Crusaders.<br> In the 1200s, the Crusaders built the wall up higher, added some new ones and constructed towers. In 1291 the Mamelukes razed most of the wall when they captured the city. <br>Akko retained the damaged walls until 1750, when Dhahar El-Omar (born ca.1690-1775), a Bedouin ruler, built them back up.<br> Between 1800 and 1814, the current walls were completed by Ahmed Pasha(1720-1804), known as el-Jazzar, \'the Butcher\', because of his cruelty. <br>Ahmed al-Jazzar with the aid of Sir Sidney Smith (the British admiral of whom Napoleon Bonaparte said, \'That man made me miss my destiny\') and his fleet defended the city against Napoleon in 1799, who tried to open a route to India '))
' , 'the site of the Templar fortress. In 1219 the Mamluks sabotaged it and its stones were used for other buildings.'))
' , 'The Crusaders called the city \'Acre\' or \'Saint-Jean d\'Acre.<br>The site of the Templar fortress.'))
' , 'Market (Spices)'))
,' , 'The Mosque is named after the ruler Al Jazzar who built it, in 1781 CE, on ruins of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.<br>Down below the courtyard are large faults, the basement of a Crusader church. <br> The columns creating the porch around the courtyard were looted from Caesarea. The columns creating the porch around the courtyard were looted from Caesarea. <br> The rooms were intended for students and pilgrims. Today the mosque is known as Jama El Basha (Mosque of the Pasha).'))
' , 'Al-Jazzar Mosque (1781/82)'))
' , 'Khan el Umdan, \'Inn of the Columns/Pillars\',restored by al-Jazzar. The fine granite Herodian pillars were brought from Caesarea to support the structure hence the name Inn of the Pillars.<br>This was the inn of the Genoese quarter used for loading and unloading from the port.<br>The clock tower is a much later addition, built in 1906 in honor of the Turkish sultan Abdul Hamid.'))
' , 'Khan el Umdan, the center of the Royal Cathena Quarter from the Crusader period'))
' , 'Museum entrance to <br>the Hospitaller Fortress. <br>open: 8.30 a.m.-6.30p.m;<br>Friday to 2.30 p.m. <br> Saturday 9a.m.-6p.m.'))
' , 'In 1918, the British captured Acre and made it part of the British mandate in Palestine.<br> By 1920, Acre took on new importance as the site of the British central prison in the Middle East.<br> The prison itself was housed in the citadel that had been built by the Crusaders in 1104.<br> Many members of the Jewish Underground were imprisoned in the Acre citadel, and, over the course of the period of British rule, nine people were hung there.<br><br>On May 4, 1947, the ETZEL (the National Military Organization) broke into the prison and freed 41 members of the LEHI and the ETZEL. Nine people died during the escape: three liberators and six escaping prisoners. In addition, eleven people were captured, three of whom were to be executed: Avshalom Haviv, Yaakov Weiss, and Meir Nakar.'))
,' , 'In 1640 a traveller writes \'....South of the Church of St. John is the palace of the head of the Knights of Malta.......within the palace are large and magnificent halls, the stairs of which still exist in their entirety\'.'))
,' , 'Underneath the parade ground of the Acco citadel,was discovered the original courtyard of the Crusader establishment together with a broad stone staircase. <br>During the late 17th Century, the Flemish artist, Cornelius de Bruyn, made a drawing of this courtyard in most of its detail.'))
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,' , 'The Fleur de lis is in the north and south-east corners of the Refectorium.<br>Perhaps an influence of Louis VII of France, who was in Acco in 1148. <br>The fleur-de-lis did not originate in France. A traditional story tells the Frankish King Clovis I choose the fleur-de-lis as a baptismal symbol of purity on his conversion to the Christian religion in 493.'))
,' , 'Refectorium - dining hall planned in the Romanesque style'))
,' , 'Refectorium, this large hall actually served as a dining room.<br>Tradition holds that Marco Polo (1254-1324), one of the first European explorers to travel across Asia, was received here during a stopover on his historic voyage to China.'))
,' , 'Refectorium the pillars have a diameter of 3m.'))
,' , 'Underground passage / tunnel to the place called the Crypt'))
,' , 'Underground passage / tunnel to the place called the Crypt'))
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,<br>Hamam El-Basha,' , 'The Turkish Bathhouse was built by Al-Jazzar in 1795. The Bathhouse kept working until the mid-20th Century.'))
<br>Hamam El-Basha,' , 'The Turkish Bathhouse'))
,<br> Hamam El-Basha' , 'The Turkish Bathhouse. <br>Pillars, floor and part of elevated seating in former steam room are covered with Roman marble from Caesarea and Tyre. '))
,<br> Hamam El-Basha' , 'The Turkish Bathhouse. <br>Pillars, floor and part of elevated seating in former steam room are covered with Roman marble from Caesarea and Tyre. '))
,<br>Hamam El-Basha,' , 'The Turkish Bathhouse. <br> Pillars, floor and part of elevated seating in former steam room are covered with Roman marble from Caesarea and Tyre.'))
,<br> Hamam El-Basha,' , 'The Turkish Bathhouse'))
,' , 'The Pisan Quarter with the Port'))
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,' , 'Old City'))
,' , 'St.John\'s Church is built in 1737 on vaults corresponding to the position of the Crusader church of St. Andrew.'))
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