Überblick
Bauhaus White City
Beaches & Mediterranean Coast
Food & Markets
Old Jaffa — Ancient Port
Nightlife & Arts
Tel Aviv is the most surprising city in the Middle East: a young, determinedly secular, architecturally coherent metropolis built on sand dunes beside the Mediterranean, where the beach is a genuine daily institution and the restaurant scene is consistently ranked among the world's ten best. The city was founded in 1909 by Jewish families who bought sand dunes north of the ancient port of Jaffa and began building. By the 1930s, Jewish architects who had studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin brought its principles to Israel in response to the rising tide of European fascism — they designed over 4,000 Bauhaus and International Style buildings, more than anywhere else in the world. The White City (Ha'ir Ha'levana) is UNESCO-listed and best understood by walking Rothschild Boulevard, Dizengoff Square, and the surrounding streets. The city's food scene grew from this cosmopolitan immigrant culture: Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, Yemenite, Persian, and later Arab-Israeli cuisines merged and evolved into something that does not resemble any single source. The Carmel Market (HaCarmel) is central Tel Aviv's great food market — dates, hummus, spices, fresh fish, and prepared food stalls operating from dawn. Jaffa to the south is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, its port now tourist-adapted but its hill and flea market still atmospheric. Nightlife extends until dawn on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights — the weekend runs Thursday to Saturday in the Israeli working week.
Tel Aviv entdecken
2 Vertretungen in dieser Stadt, nach Region gruppiert.