First traces of Acre date back to Heracles, who once upon a time healed his wounds exactly here (!) …
Here the markets met Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, King Herod, Paul the Apostle and Marco Polo.
These walls and tunnels were built and destroyed and re-built by crusaders and mamluks, conquered by Richard the Lionheart and Philip II Roi de France.
Pay a visit to Acre Mosque, erected by the Sultan Jazzar Pasha, aka “the Butcher”
This is Acre harbour, where the defeated Napoleon watched for the last time the towers of Acre …
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