Trip to Caesarea with Oma

We brought Oma to Caesarea a couple of weeks ago and here are some shots of this beautiful, historic place. We had such a nice weather that day. Two months ago we went here with our friends, the Hatami family, but we were unlucky as the weather turned bad in the afternoon, thus didn't take nice photos. After the stroll, we enjoyed our lunch in one of the restaurants there. We are glad Oma had a great time in this trip. Enjoy the beautiful view!

Weekend at Caesarea

"On the site of what was once a Phoenician town, Strato's Tower King Herod (37-4 BCE) built a resplendent city and named it Caesarea in honor of his patron, Augustus Caesar. It's inhabitants Romans, Samaritans and Jews enjoyed the pleasures of the Romans: water in plentiful supply, bathhouses and places of entertainment. In 6 CE Caesarea became the seat of the Roman governors. The status of the city's Jews deteriorated, and in 66 CE they rebelled against the Romans. When Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 CE, Caesarea became the Roman provincial capital of Judea. The city reached the height of its prosperity in the Byzantine period (fourth to sixth centuries CE). It retained its status as an important center of Christian Scholarship and its harbor became the gateway to the Holy Land for thousands of pilgrims. The Jewish community grew, and religious academies, where famous sages taught, were founded in the city. After the Moslems conquered the land in the seventh century, Caesarea's status diminished in 1101, the Crusaders captured the town. Eighty-six years later, Saladin conquered it and destroyed its walls. The present fortifications were built in 1251 by the French king Louis IX. Following the Mameluke conquest in in 1265, the city was abandoned. At the end of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman authorities settled a group of Bosnian Moslem refugees there. The remains of ancient Caesarea attest to the city's illustrious past. "