Franciscans built the church and a large inn, which almost all European pilgrims used to the Holy Land in the 17th and 18th centuries. Napoleon and many military officers and scientists who joined his journey to the Holy Land camped at the inn in 1799. After Napoleon's campaign, the church and inn were demolished and rebuilt several times until the modern Baroque building opened its doors in 1894 with the support and financial contribution of the Spanish monarchy. In 1903, the compound was expanded, and the church became the cathedral of the Catholic community in Jaffa. The contemporary look was given to the place in 1932.
Let us walk from the sizeable southern parking through the port, the streets of the upper city, the house of Ilana Gur, the workshop of Meisler, the soaring orange, Abrashi Park, the square of all the signs of the Zodiac, the Cathedral of St. Peter, to the port and back to the parking,
