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Visitor facilities

• Visitor center
• Okshi museum and Gallery
• Seven lavatories in the city, including handicap access
• The Hospitaler Citadel
• The Templar Tunnel
• The underground prisoners museum
• The Turkish Hamam
• Youth hostels with 140 beds
• Rooms for lent
• Restaurants throughout the city offering a variety of local dishes and sea food
• Souvenir shops
• Number of authentic open markets
• Boat trips originating from the city harbor
• The old city of Acre street theater festival

The old city

The city fortification

Old city walls

• The sea wall
  • The western sea wall
  • The southern sea wall
  • The eastern sea wall
• The land wall
  • The northern land wall
  • The eastern land wall
• The moat
• Wall promenade (land promenade and sea promenade)
• Counter wall
• Fortified outposts
• The Daher el-Omar wall (??)

Gates

Include 2 gates and 2 entrance:

• The sea gate
• The land gate
• HaHagana street entrance (north-west on the northern well)
• Weizmann street entrance (north-west on the northern well)

Acre Prison (Underground Prisoners Museum)

• The prison is located on the upper floor of the citadel, on the northen part of Acre.
• built by Daher el-Omar, based on the Hospitaler citadel
• later extended by el-Jazar
• in the Ottoman era it was first used as a governmental building in various forms, and parts of it were used as a prison.
• the British transformed the entire structure into a prison - the central prison of Palestine.
• Since 1948 the prison became to a mental hospital, and later it became a museum of the underground prisoners.

The Seraya

• The Seraya is located in the northern part of the old city. It is part of a large complex of public buildings along with El-Jazar mosque, The Citadel and Hammam El-Basha.
• The Seraya is built in several stages: the underground level – The Posta – was built in the early Arabic period with crusader interference, the floor ground was built in the crusader period with Ottoman interference, and the upper level was built in the Ottoman period with British interference. The Ottoman used it as a government building.

Hammam El-Basha

• Hammam El-Basha is located on the north-east of the old city, near the Citadel and the Seraya.
• Hammam El-Basha is the largest bathhouse and the most magnificent one in Israel.
• The hammam kept functioning until 1950.

The small Hammam

• The small Hammam is located in the south part of the old city, not far from Khan El-Umdan and Khan A-Shune.
• was built by Dahar El-Omar.
• the hammam is part of a bigger complex of buildings, and it is hardly noticed from outside. The hammam was in use until the 20th century.

Khan El-Umdan

• Khan El-Umdan is located in the southeast part of the old city, near the Fisherman-Square and the port.
• was built by El-Jazar. The building is an integral part of the sea fortifications. The Khan is built on top of crusader remnants of a khan or some kind of a fortified building. In 1906 a clock tower was built above the main entrance as an honor for the Sultan Abdul Hamid the 2nd.

Khan El-Faranj

• located in the west part of the old city, close to the port. In this place was the main courtyard of the Venician quarter in the crusader period.
• was built in the second half of the 16th century by French merchants.
• This is the most ancient khan that remains till these days.
• In the British Mandate period there was a factory for boats production.
• A Franciscan church is located nowadays in the northeast part of the khan.

Khan Shawardee

• located in the north east part of the old city, not far from Shuk El-Abyad and the Turkish Bazzar.
• built on top of crusader building, which supposedly was a crusader’s hostel.
• Dahar El-Omar built the Khan.
• The Khan is used nowadays for merchants and most of it abandoned.

Khan A-Shune

• located in the south part of the old city, near Khan ElUmdan and the small Hammam.
• went through massive changes during the Ottoman period by Daher El-Omar and El-Jazar.

The Turkish Bazaar

• located in the north part of the old city, south to the Seraya and to El-Jazar Mosque.
• The western part of the bazaar was only found in 1960-61, during a survey by A. Kesten.

Shuk El-Abyad (the white market)

• located in the north part of the old city, near Khan Shawardee and ElJazar Mosque.
• built by Daher El-Omar.
• It was destroyed in a fire and restored in 1817 by Suliman Pecha.

The Acre-Cabri Aqueduct

• located in the west part of the Upper Galilee, from north to south along 14 km.
• built by Suliman-Pecha.
• functioned until 1950.

The Citadel

• located on the northwest side of the old city. It is part of a large complex of public buildings along with El-Jazar mosque, The Seraya and Hammam El-Basha.
• It functioned as the center of the crusader’s Hospitaller quarter.
• The citadel was built in stages and reached its peak towards the end of the crusader period in Acre.
• On top of the crusader level El-Jazar built his palace.

The Templar Tunnel

• located in the southern part of the old city.
• The lower part of the tunnel is carved through the bedrock and the upper part is built of hewn stones, above which is a half-barrel vault.
• The runs from the Templar fort in the west to the city port in the east, a distance of 350 m’; on the way it crosses the Pisan qurter.
• The tunnel was discovered in 1994.

El-Jazar Mosque

• located in the northeast part of the old city. It is part of a large complex of public buildings along with the Citadel, The Seraya and Hammam ElBasha.
• El-Jazar Mosque was built by El-Jazar in 1871, apparently on top of the remnants of ‘Saint Krucha’ Holy Cross Cathedral.
• The open courtyard is surrounded by 45 small rooms that were used as living quarters for students.
• In 1804 ElJazar was buried in the courtyard of the mosque.

Shazliya Mosque

• On the nothern part of the city, adjoining the citadel from the west.
• The Shazliya Mosque belongs to the Darwish stream of the Shazliya sect, named after the founder Yashroty, which has its world center in Acre.
• A-Din el-Yashroty himself is buried in Acre next to the mosque, along with other members of his family.
• The mosque is a site for pilgrimage for the sect members in Israel Lebanon and Jordan.

Snan-Basha Mosque

• located in the south east part of the old city, near Khan El-Umdan and Khan El-Faranj. Those three building define the Fisherman’s Square.
• Snan-Basha Mosque was built in the 16th century, named after one of Tzfat governers.
• This is the first mosque to be built in Acre.
• It was frequently call ‘The Sea Mosque’, because it is close to the port.
• The mosque was reconstructed during Suliman Pecha’s period.

Saint Andrews Church

• located in the southwest part of the old city, not far from Khan A-Shune and the Maronite Church.
• Saint Andrews Church is a Greek Catholic church that was probably built during Daher El-Omar period.

St. George’s Church

• located in the middle of the old city, in Genua square.
• St. George’s church is a Greek-Orthodox church.
• This is the most ancient church in Acre, assumed to be built in the 17th century.
• It is built on top of remnants of the crusader St. Leurentius church of the Genoese quarter.
• It was the greatest church in Acre during the 18th century.

Saint John’s Church

• located in the south part of the old city, near the lighthouse and Burj Es-Sanjak.
• Saint John’s Church is a Catholic church which was built by the Fransiscanes in 1737.
• The church is based on vaults that protruded from the inner part of the sea wall.

Ha’Ramahal Synagogue

• At the end of the Jews street, near the market place.
• The synagogue is located in a small structure at the end of the Jews street.
• The synagogue is named after Rabbi Moshe Hayim Lozatu, one of the most important cabalists of the 18th century that lived in Acre.
• The synagogue served the Jewish population of the city until after the British mandate period.

Abud House

• On the Ha’Hagana St. on the western part of the city.
• The Baha’ullah stayed in Abud House after being released from prison on 1870.
• He lived there for 7 years, during which he wrote his most important work, setting out the laws and precepts to be observed by Bahai adherents.
• From Abud House the Baha’ullah moved to el-Ba’Haga estate where he died and was buried in 1892.

Jabotinsky Tower

• Jabotinsky Tower is the northwest tower of the prison complex.
• Jabotinsky Tower was built (along with the rest of the Ottoman level of the prison) in ca. 1790 by El-Jazar.
• During the Ottoman period the Baha’ulla was kept as a prisoner in that tower.
• During the British Mandate the prison was the main prison in Palestine and Jabotinsky (one of the Israeli underground leaders) was kept as a prisoner in the tower.

Fountains

• There are about 43 fountains in the old city of Acre. Some of them are old and some of them are modern. Few of the fountains shown in this map no longer exist.
• few of the fountains in Acre underwent conservation treatment.

1. Khan Shawardee courtyard. The fountain went through conservation.
2. The magical gardens near the citadel. The fountain went through conservation.
3. Near the Shazaliee Mosque.
4. Beit-Abud Bahai house courtyard.
5. Sinan-Basha Mosque courtyard.
6. Abdalla square. The fountain is no longer existing.
7. Genua square. The fountain is no longer existing.
8. Khan El-Umdan courtyard.
9. El-Zaituna Mosque.
10. El-Jazzar Mosque fenced courtyard.
11. El-Jazzar Mosque.
12. El-Jazar Mosque main entrance.
13. El-Jazzar Mosque.
14. Fahar A-Din.
15. El-Ramal Mosque courtyard wall.
16. Near Shazaliee Mosque.
17. El-Magadleh Mosque.
18. Sinan Basha Mosque.
19. Prison tower.
20. Abu-Christo Gallery.
21. By steps at narrow street junction.
22. North Moat.
23. Youth Hostel.
24. Large domestic.
25. St. Andrew’s Church courtyard.
26. Square, road junction.
27. Beit-Abud Bahai house courtyard.
28. Venice square, along Mosque Sinan Basha.
29. Small square.
30. The quarter junction.
31. Junction of alleys.
32. At street junction, near Hammam El-Basha.
33. Genua square. The fountain is no longer existing.
34. El-Ramal Mosque, entrance passage.
35. Abu-Christo restaurant, near the Sea Gate. The fountain is no longer existing.
36. Khan El-Faranj. The fountain is no longer existing.
37. Khan A-Shune. The fountain is no longer existing.
38. Prison courtyard. The fountain is no longer existing.
39. Prison.
40. The magical gardens near the citadel.
41. The magical gardens near the citadel.
42. Near the east fortifications.
43. Near the Shuk El-Abyad (The White Market).

streets

• http://www.el-akko.info/page.asp?id=398