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Tel Aviv-Jaffa has the exceedingly rare, contradictory distinction of being both one of the oldest cites and newest metropolises on earth. With historic Jaffa nostalgically referred to as the «Belle of the Mediterranean» and modern Tel Aviv’s comparison to New York City as «The Big Orange,» the city has a great deal to offer in walking tours.
For much of the city’s history, natural development determined the worth of what to preserve and what to destroy. However, the city’s centennial anniversary has reminded Tel Aviv of its dynamic history and inspired a movement to restore and explore it. As such, the municipality has commissioned 12 new walking tours (in Hebrew) to breathe life into long-forgotten eras
Neighborhoods of Tel Aviv are portals to the city’s various time periods. Three of the new tours exemplify the efforts of the municipality to return pivotal bygone epochs to public consciousness. The first is a tour of southern Jaffa; a step into Ajame invokes Jaffa’s shift outside the city walls and into modernity under the Ottoman Empire. Crossing the Chelouche Bridge to the second tour ushers in Neveh Tzedek and the First Aliya’s foundation for a Hebrew city. The final example contains the cottages by the Kirya, which resurrect the Evangelical German Templers’ agricultural colony of Sarona.
Leer artículo completo: The Jerusalem Post
