Nazareth
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Nazareth (Arabic الناصرة an-Nāṣirah, Hebrew נצרת Nasarat) is a city in northern Israel. With a population of 60,000, it is the largest Arab city in Israel proper with a mixed but quite harmonious Christian and Muslim population.
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Understand
Nazareth is best known as the home of Joseph and Mary and hence also Jesus, although he was born in Bethlehem.
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Get in
Egged buses connect Nazareth to Tel Aviv and other major cities.
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Get around
Central Nazareth can be easily covered on foot.
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See
- The Basilica of the Annunciation, commemorating the site where the archangel Gabriel announced to Mary that she would bear the son of God, is Nazareth's largest attraction. Unlike most churches in the Holy Land, this one is very new and modern (albeit constructed on the ruins of a Crusader-era church), built from concrete and with a large dome overhead. The walls are covered with frescoes. In the basement of the basilica is the Grotto of the Annunciation, containing what are supposedly the ruins of Joseph and Mary's house.
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A souq (Arab market) extends up the hill from the Church of the Annunciation.
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