Mansion of Mazra‘ih and White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. Mansion of Mazra‘ih

   The Baháʼí faith has two of its holiest places in Israel, and the Mansion of Mazra'ih is the quieter of them. It stands in the farmland north of Acre, near the coast, a large Ottoman-era house surrounded by gardens and orange trees. Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the religion, spent years as a prisoner in the fortress city of Acre, and when his confinement was relaxed in 1877 he moved here, living in the mansion for a couple of years before settling at nearby Bahjí, where he died in 1892.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Mansion of Mazra‘ih is where the day begins. Next is Tel Megiddo.

2. 2. Tel Megiddo

   From the top of Tel Megiddo, the whole of the Jezreel Valley spreads out below you, a green and gold checkerboard of fields stretching towards Mount Tabor and the hills of Galilee. You can see at once why so many armies fought here. The mound guarded the narrow pass where the ancient coastal road, the Via Maris, crossed from the Mediterranean plain into the valley, and anyone who held it controlled one of the great trade and military routes of the ancient world.

   Read the complete Tel Megiddo write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Tel Megiddo comes up about 53 km into the recorded legs. Next is White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme.

3. 3. White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme

   White walls, rounded balconies, ribbon windows and flat roofs: walking through central Tel Aviv you are surrounded by one of the largest collections of buildings in the International Style anywhere in the world. Several thousand were built in the 1930s and 1940s, many by architects who had trained in Europe, some at the Bauhaus, and who adapted the modernist ideas to the Mediterranean climate with balconies for shade and raised ground floors for air. The White City, as it is called, became a World Heritage Site in 2003. The plan of the city itself was drawn up by the Scottish urbanist Patrick Geddes in the 1920s, with tree lined boulevards and green squares.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   about 137 km into the recorded legs you reach White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme. Next is back through Tel Megiddo.

4. 4. back through Tel Megiddo

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

   Read the complete Tel Megiddo write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   back through Tel Megiddo, late in the day. Next is Mansion of Mazra‘ih.

5. 5. Mansion of Mazra‘ih

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

   Read the complete Mansion of Mazra‘ih write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Back at Mansion of Mazra‘ih. That is the ride.