イスラエルの洞窟・トップ11

Interesting antiquities site, well worth stopping and taking a look for a few minutes.

"A bastion of faith, largely built by the Crusaders in the 12th century. The gateway to the Holy Land – Acre in northern Israel. The city boasts great names in world history – both good and bad: terrorized by Herod, occupied by Pompey and Julius Caesar, overrun by Alexander the Great. The Apostle Paul brought Christianity early on. Then the Arabs invaded the country, and the Umayyads brought prosperity to the small peninsula. The English King Richard the Lionheart recaptured the city and made it the home of the Crusaders. The Knights Hospitaller expanded it into an underground fortress of Christianity in the Middle East. Francis of Assisi founded a nunnery. The Ottomans transformed it back into a Muslim-Arab citadel, which Napoleon tried in vain to capture." These are the sentences used on the ARD Mediathek website to describe the film (available only in German) from the series "Treasures of the World - Heritage of Humanity," which I highly recommend, and which presents AKKO to culture-loving viewers. The 15-minute film can be accessed via the following link =>> https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/schaetze-der-welt/akko-hafenstadt-akko-israel-folge-324/3sat/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS83NzE5OTEy

With several hundred film contributions, culture-loving viewers can learn about very special places all over the world as part of the series "Treasures of the World - Heritage of Humanity" – which I highly recommend. Despite the diversity of the cultures and eras in which they originated, the sites have one great commonality: UNESCO has recognized them as "World Heritage Sites." These include the ruins of Masada, a fortified rock city in the Israeli desert, which owes its international fame primarily to the fact that in the first century AD, soldiers of the Roman Empire stormed the site after a complex siege – however, the nearly 1,000 inhabitants had previously committed collective suicide to avoid being captured by their hated enemies. The 15-minute film contribution (only in German) can be found in the ARD media library at the following link =>> https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/schaetze-der-welt/masada-israel-folge-322/3sat/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS82ODQ5Mjg4

The limestone from the ditches was used to build the Crusader castle of Montfort. The castle's protective walls were five to seven meters thick. There was a castle chapel, a residential tower, several halls and a cistern that supplied the residents with water. An outbuilding belonging to the castle was found in the valley. This was most likely used as a water mill at times, but also as a guest house or hospital. The Teutonic Order had made it their mission to care for the sick, which they demonstrably also did in Montfort.

The buildings are all very well preserved.

Great mosaic works on the sides of the street!

Museum and start of the walk over the walls of the city.

a beautifully crafted model