Tours from Haifa and Ashdod Ports
Private Tours In Israel is one of the leading private touring company with top guides and a fleet of tourism vehicles of various sizes. All our guides are licensed by the Ministry of Tourism.
We are specialized in cruise ships. Our representative is always on pier when the ship arrives and our vehicles have special permit from the port authorities to park opposite the gangway.
We provide guiding services to the ports of Haifa and Ashdod.
Our Rates are much more attractive than what you may buy on the ship.
Please contact us for any question you may have!
Family Tour
At Private Tours In Israel we also encourage you to explore Israel with your family in mind, focusing on the interests of you and your children.
Is one of your kids especially interested in wild animals? Does your family share common interests, like nature or archeology? Has your family been talking about an extended family vacation, taking the grandparents along too? Do you have a toddler and a pre-teenager? Are you concerned about traveling abroad with kids for the first time? Depending on what your family is like and what you want to do on your trip, you may want to consider a private tour.
Israel is a great and special place to visit with the family.
Private Tours In Israel will design an itinerary that is comfortable, safe, and fun for everyone in the family where we can arrange a trip, customized to your kids’ ages and interests.
For kids and parents alike, you’ll have time to relax and discover the joys of travel.
Some historic facts about the Cardo in Jerusalem
In this section we will review some highlights or tourist attractions from Israel.
Some historic facts about the Cardo in Jerusalem
In the year 129 CE, the Roman emperor Hadrian, who came to power 50 years after the destruction of the temple, toured the eastern region of his empire and traveled to Jericho, Jerusalem and Gaza. He announced that he would build a new military city on the ruins of Jerusalem to be called Aelia Capitolina, mainly for legion soldiers. This shocked the Jews who had nourished hopes that this moderate emperor would allow them to fully restore Jewish life, and fueled the Bar Kochba Revolt, which broke out three years later. Far from restoring Jewish life, the failure of the uprising in the 135 ended Jewish settlement in Jerusalem for hundreds of years.
Hadrian decided to build a Cardo in Jerusalem, as in other former cities and camps, a wide main street into the heart of the settlement or city, the world came from the Greek for heart.
The Roman builders of Aelia Capitolina began work on the Cardo in 135, starting at what was then the magnificent Damascus Gate and heading south to the city center to intersect an east-west street.
In the sixth century, the Byzantine emperor Justinian extended the Cardo southward to keep up with expansion of the city, He also built a new church in the south of the city – actually named the New Church (Nea)- and the road extension allowed for processions between it and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. When finished, the Cardo starched from Damascus Gate to Zion Gate, which was east of the present Zion Gate.
The Cardo was 23 meters wide and had a central road for pedestrian and wagon traffic and two avenues of columns, one on each side. The Cardo usually had shops on each side but in Jerusalem there were shops on the eastern side only in certain parts of the Jewish quarter. Rain channels were built on both side of the road to carry water to cisterns built under the Nea Church. The Jerusalem Cardo is clearly marked on the sixth century Madaba map.
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