During the period between the 1920s and the 1940s, the part of Tel Aviv known as “The White City” was built. Tel Aviv is the largest open-air Bauhaus museum in the world, and a declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
White City
The Carmel Market is a colorful, bustling market situated between Allenby Street and Magen David Square in the north, and the Carmelit bus terminal and HaKovshim Park in the south, and is the largest major open market in the Dan Region.
Carmel Market
Independence Hall is a museum located inside Dizengoff House, where the State of Israel’s declaration of independence took place. Visitors can get a taste of recent history while enjoying a recreation of the hall and an exhibit portraying the background to the founding of the state.
Almost like Sleeping Beauty, the artists’ market in Nahalat Binyamin comes to life twice a week and brightens this old street with brilliant spots of color. On Tuesdays and Fridays a pleasant stroll among the stalls reveals an abundance of creative and original ideas for gifts you will not find in stores.
Nahalat Binyamin
Sheinkin Street is known as Tel Aviv's shopping and entertainment street, filled with designed stores and cafes. This street was once the tone setter for all that is trendy, young and fashionable.
Sheinkin Street
Rothchild Blvd. is one of Tel Aviv’s main arteries and all along it are historic buildings, cafes and main entertainment sites. The eclectic architectural style of the buildings tells the story of the city that rose up out of the sands.
Rothchild Boulevard
The Tel Aviv Art Museum is the largest art museum in Israel, with both permanent and periodically changing exhibits of artists from Israel and abroad. There is a sculpture exhibition in the plaza in front of the museum
Tel Aviv Art Museum
At the renovated Tel Aviv Port the sea surges underneath an old wharf and an impressive wooden promenade, wide space suitable for bicycles and strollers. Many restaurants and cafes are scattered across the deck. In the Summer, visitors can enjoy many carnivals, parties and street fairs.
The Eretz Israel Museum campus houses pavilions presenting artifacts from ancient cultures in Israel. There are exhibits of various collections related to art and culture in the land of Israel. The campus also includes the ancient mound of Tel Kasileh, archaeological excavations and a planetarium.
The Azrieli Observatory is an observatory situated on top of the Azrieli center, overlooking all of Gush Dan. High-powered telescopes, viewer activated audio guide and a short 3D film describing the history of the city of Tel Aviv.
The Palmah Museum is a center for teaching the heritage of the Palmah - pre-state fighting units. The permanent exhibit at this site traces the Palmah’s history until the end of the War of Independence. The museum also provides a memorial hall, rotating exhibits, guided tours and various educational activities.
A walking tour of Neve Tzedek is a must for romantics, history lovers and fans of small winding alleys. The picturesque neighborhood is bursting with boutiques, galleries, stylish cafes and restaurants.
Neve Tzedek
The Nahum Gutman Museum is housed in building where several writers once lived and in which the first workers’ newspaper was edited.
Nahum Gutman Museum
At the Yarkon Park you’ll discover that the great outdoors is only a few minutes’ drive from downtown Tel Aviv. Stretching for hundreds of acres along the tranquil Yarkon River, the park has hidden beauty spots where you’d never believe the busy city is so close.
Yarkon Park
The Old Jaffa visitor’s center at Kedumim plaza houses an exhibit of archeological findings from the various periods of ancient Jaffa. In the center of the display area is the excavation site around which the museum was built.
The steeple of St. Peter's Church in Old Jaffa, overlooking the picturesque fishing port, has for over a century been a beacon signaling to sea-weary pilgrims that the Holy Land was near.
St. Peter’s Church
The unique displays of the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora showcase Jewish experience from the exile after the destruction of the First Temple 2,600 years ago to the present.
Diaspora Museum
Jaffa, Tel Aviv’s “older sister” boasts bountiful biblical history, along with charming lanes, antiquities, quiet churches, galleries and a picturesque fishing port.
Jaffa
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