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Jerusalem

Cruise to Israel's Most Ancient City, Jerusalem

Jerusalem is Israel's largest and most ancient city situated on a cluster of hilltops and valleys between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea. The main religious and historical sites are in the Old City, which is contained inside a wall constructed in 1538 during the reign of the Ottoman ruler Suleiman I, the Magnificent. Enter by one of the famous ancient gateways like the Damascus or Jaffa Gates. The area inside the Old City wall is roughly divided into four: the Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and Armenian quarters. The Old City is sacred to Jews as the capital of the first Jewish kingdom, to Christians as the site of Christ's crucifixion and to Muslims as the site of the ascent into Heaven of the Prophet Muhammad.