Mount Carmel, Beit She'arim

Name: Mount Carmel
Address: Beit She'arim, Israel

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Mount Carmel, also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias, is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. The range is a UNESCO biosphere reserve. A number of towns are situated there, most notably the city of Haifa, Israel's third largest city, located on the northern and western slopes. ()

Local name: הכרמל Maximum elevation: 26247 ftCoordinates: 32°40'21"N, 35°1'24"E

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Mount Carmel – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: El Wad, Tel Yokneam, Janco Dada Museum, Yokneam Illit.

3.3 miW
Cave
El Wad, Atlit
85 min walk • El Wad is an Epipalaeolithic archaeological site in Mount Carmel, Israel. The site has two components: El Wad Cave, also known as Mugharat el-Wad or HaNahal Cave; and El Wad Terrace, located immediately outside the cave.
5 miE
Archaeological site
Tel Yokneam, Yokneam Illit
128 min walk • Tel Yokneam, also spelled Yoqne'am or Jokneam, is an archaeological site located in the northern part of the modern city of Yokneam Illit. It was known in Arabic by a variant name, Tell Qamun, believed to be a corruption of the Hebrew name.
3.1 miNW
Art museum, Museum
Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod
80 min walk • The Janco Dada Museum is located in Ein Hod, Israel. It is a museum that exhibits the work of Marcel Janco as well as art from the Dada movement and contemporary art too. The museum was established in 1983, by a group of Marcel Janco's friends, with the purpose of conserving the works and ideas of the sole Dadaist living in Israel.
4.9 miE
City
Yokneam Illit
125 min walk • Yokneam Illit, also Yoqne'am Illit and Jokneam Illit, is a city in northern Israel. It is located in a hilly region of the lower Galilee at the base of the Carmel Mountains, and overlooks the Jezreel Valley. It is 21 kilometres from Haifa and 80 kilometres from Tel Aviv.
5.1 miNW
Forts and castles
Le Destroit
131 min walk • Le Destroit is a ruined medieval fortified road station, built by the Templars of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the early 12th century CE, located on the Mediterranean shore near a site where they later built the Chateau Pelerin castle, today close to the modern town of Atlit, Israel.
3.4 miW
Prehistoric site
Tabun Cave
86 min walk • The Tabun Cave is an excavated site located at Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve, Israel and is one of the Human Evolution sites at Mount Carmel, which were proclaimed as having universal value by UNESCO in 2012.
5.7 miNW
Forts and castles
Château Pèlerin
145 min walk • Château Pèlerin, also known as Atlit Castle and Pilgrim Castle, is a Crusader fortress located near Atlit on the northern coast of Israel, about 13 kilometres south of Haifa. The Knights Templar began building the fortress in 1218 during the Fifth Crusade.
5 miSW
Prehistoric site
Skhul Cave
127 min walk • Es-Skhul or the Skhul Cave is a prehistoric cave site situated about 20 km south of the city of Haifa, Israel, and about 3 km from the Mediterranean Sea.
5.7 miNW
Forts and castles
Atlit naval base
145 min walk • Atlit naval base is a classified Israeli Navy base on the northern Mediterranean coast of Israel. The base is home to Shayetet 13, Israel's naval commando unit.
5.7 miSW
Forts and castles
Cafarlet
146 min walk • Cafarlet or Capharleth or Kafr Lam is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type. Today it is located inside Moshav HaBonim, Israel, on lands of the now abandoned Arab village of Kafr Lam.
2.1 miNE
Town
Daliyat al-Karmel, Carmel City
53 min walk • Daliyat el-Karmel is a Druze town located on Mount Carmel in the Haifa District of Israel, around 20 km southeast of Haifa. In 2019 its population was 17,653.