Jaffa

On Friday afternoon, I was able to walk down to Jaffa and take a look at this very old port.
A horse-drawn vegetable cart in the Shuk
Jaffa in the background with the seaside path to it in the foreground.
The 'world-famous' clock tower. It marks the entrance to Jaffa and is about 100 years old.
There are clocks on all four sides.
Look at the windows.
Here is a close-up.
The Ottomans may claim that they controlled Jaffa--which was overrun by everyone for more than 4,000 years--but Napoleon left these cannon behind.
Napoleon's cannons guarding the port.
Where the cannon seem to be pointed.
Looking back at Tel Aviv from the Jaffa port.
A map of the most historic part of Jaffa.
Al-Bahr Mosque is situated on the Ha`aliya Hashniya harbor. A painting from 1675, by the Dutch painter Lebrun, might indicate that al-Bahr Mosque, Jaffa's…
St. Peter Church. This is the landmark you could see in the earlier pictures from Tel Aviv.
The main square in the port area. There is an archeological excavation underneath it.
It doesn't look like much, but the rock is where Greek mythology said Andromeda was chained. Something about Andromeda
Tour buses come up this narrow road to the square.
Steps to the square from the south end.
Tour buses come up this narrow road to the square.
With so much history, it is not surprising that there is much archeology going on.
Exposed ruins