Caesarea National Park
10 reviews
June 12
We were in the park in May 2024, the ticket price is 40 shekels. They gave out a map of the park, at the entrance there is a good souvenir shop with adequate prices. The park is impressive, it is fashionable to walk for several hours with visits to restaurants, a glassblower workshop and even a diving school👀Beautiful sea views... there is a large free parking lot at the entrance. You can take flippers masks with you, there is a rocky bottom, rocks, a good place for snorkeling
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September 26
An interesting place. It was possible to preserve the ancient buildings and integrate places for recreation and walks into them. You touch the ancient walls and feel the breath of centuries. You realize that thousands of years before you, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Crusaders walked along these streets.
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October 3
It's a cool park, I really liked it.
An adult ticket costs 39 shekels. Children's — 24
Available for strolling with a stroller
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August 12
Great trip! A wonderful place! I really liked the Rally museums. Especially the Dali collection! I will recommend it, Mikhail
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May 10
A fantastic place. A visit to lovers of architecture, history, anthropology and idle tourists is a MUST!
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July 29
A very promobject in the background is off topic. The place itself is absolutely understandable from a historical point of view.
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August 15, 2023
Very beautiful location on the coast. I got a very interesting guide. I really enjoyed the trip.
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September 3, 2020
Caesarea is an ancient city located on the Mediterranean coast of modern Israel.The city was named Caesarea by King Herod the Great of Judea in honor of the Roman Emperor (Caesar) Octavian Augustus, who donated lands previously lost by the Jews to him.In the Russian tradition, the names Caesarea and Caesarea of Palestine were used as the name of the city.
In 31 BC, the Roman emperor Augustus handed over the settlement to the Jewish king Herod, who completely rebuilt it by 10 BC, turning it into a large port city.
The city, named Caesarea by Herod the Great in honor of Caesar Augustus, became the administrative center of the Roman prosecutor's office in Judea, and was also the main base of the Roman legions. During the first century, most of the inhabitants were Syrian Greeks. There were also many rich Jews living in the city. From here, the arrested Apostle Paul was sent to Rome. Caesarea became the main port of Palestine and is often mentioned in the New Testament.
Later, Caesarea became one of the main ecclesiastical centers of the province of Palestine Prima. In the III—IV centuries AD, the fathers of the Christian Church taught at the Caesarea school and created a library. This library contained an early edition of the Bible in several languages. This manuscript was kept in the Caesarean Library until 600, when it perished along with the library in a fire. It is also interesting that the original version of the Gospel of Matthew was seen there.
During the Crusades, Caesarea played an important role as one of the strongholds of the country, but since the XIII century its fall began, and now only ruins remain of it.
Nowadays, the Caesarea National Park-Reserve is located on the territory of the ancient city, in which extensive and active archaeological excavations are still being carried out.A Roman amphitheater was excavated, which is still in use today, a city wall, a hippodrome, a paved square with giant statues, the remains of a synagogue and churches, as well as many manuscripts in which the first mentions of Pontius Pilate and Nazareth were found, including a slab with Pilate's dedicatory inscription to Emperor Tiberius.
The Area of statues of the Roman period, the ruins of a synagogue of the Byzantine period, the remains of a Roman fortress wall, a hippodrome (II century AD) and fragments of aqueducts are also interesting.
You can visit all this and see with your own eyes the slab with the only documented signature of Pontius Pilate.
At the same time, you get the feeling that this is the contact with the story itself...
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January 18, 2020
It is interesting to come into contact with the era of the life of Christ... It's exciting.
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June 23, 2019
A great park.
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