The Jaffa Gate is so named because the road from the city of Jaffa came here. Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent built the Jaffa Gate together with the walls of modern Jerusalem in the 16th century. He was most famous of all the sultans of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. But, unfortunately, he died of dysentery in 1566 during the siege of the Szigetvár fortress in Hungary. He was buried in a mausoleum in Istanbul next to his beloved wife, the legendary Roksolana.
The trip takes us from the Jaffa Gate through the Christian Quarter to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. After that, we will visit Golgotha, the stone of anointing, burial, and resurrection, St. Helena Chapel - the site where the Holy cross was found. Further, the route passes through Muristan to the Jewish Quarter, Kardo Street, excavations of the walls of Jerusalem from the time of Jesus, the mosaic of Madaba, the Hurva Synagogue, the Menorah, the panorama of the Olive and Temple Mountains, the Wailing Wall. Finally, we return to the Jaffa Gate through the Muslim Quarter, the monuments of the Mamluk architecture, and the street of David.
