Historical heritage

I had the chance to see some well-preserved historical relics and old cities. Israeli people obviously take pride in their cultural heritage and want to preserve it as much as possible.

In Caesarea, an ancient port city, you can wander through the remains of a thousand-year-old Roman theater, horse racing tracks, palaces, bath houses and warehouses. They look quite old, just as they were originally built. With help from a guide, you can imagine the kind of life that people were living more than 1,000 years ago.

 Massada is another place with an old story. It was a famous fortress that Jewish rebels held against Roman armies more than 1,000 years ago. The Jews showed great heroism by choosing suicide over slavery after they lost the battle. Currently, tourists can only see the remains of three large palaces on top of an isolated rock plateau and the remains of Roman camps hundreds of meters below. Israelis try their best to keep the original state of the place. Even when they restored some of the walls, they used ancient stones from the site instead of stones from other places. At the same time, they marked the restored walls with black lines, in order to tell people of the original conditions of the walls.

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