Crusader Underground City
Descend into the extraordinary underground Crusader city of Akko, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where the Knights Hospitaller built a vast complex of halls, tunnels, and chambers beneath the streets of the medieval port.
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Crusader Citadel Entry
Enter the Crusader citadel complex through the Ottoman-era Turkish bathhouse above, descending into the underground halls built by the Knights Hospitaller who made Akko their headquarters in the Holy Land from 1104 to 1291.
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Knights Hall
Walk through the Knights Hall, the enormous vaulted dining room of the Hospitallers where Gothic arches rise six meters overhead, the stone perfectly preserved for 700 years below the streets of the modern city.
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Secret Tunnel
Walk the secret tunnel used by the Knights as an escape route and supply line between the citadel and the sea, the 350-meter underground passage cut through bedrock and rediscovered only in 1994.
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Templars Quarter
Explore the Templars Quarter ruins where the rival military order maintained their own separate complex in Crusader Akko, the competition between the Hospitallers and Templars sometimes erupting into open warfare within the city walls.
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Pisan Quarter
Find the Pisan Quarter remains where Italian merchants maintained their trading concession in the Crusader port, the medieval commercial networks that made Akko the busiest port in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Underground Museum
Visit the underground museum presenting the extraordinary story of the Crusader Kingdom through artifacts, models, and interpretive displays in the atmospheric stone chambers of the buried medieval city.
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