Tel Burna, Beth Guvrin
#2 among attractions in Beth Guvrin
Facts and practical information
Tel Burna is an Israeli archaeological site located in the Shephelah, along the banks of Nahal Guvrin, not far from modern-day Qiryat Gat. ()
Beth Guvrin Israel
Tel Burna – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Tel Lachish, Tell ej-Judeideh, Tel Erani, Kefar Shihlayim.
- 4.7 miSCity, Archaeological site
Tel Lachish
120 min walk • Lachish was an ancient Canaanite and Israelite city in the Shephelah region of Israel, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. The current tell by that name, known as Tel Lachish or Tell ed-Duweir, has been identified with the biblical Lachish.
- 2.2 miENature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Tell ej-Judeideh, Beth Guvrin
56 min walk • Tell ej-Judeideh is a tell in modern Israel. The tell, 9.7 kilometres southeast of Gath, was excavated by Frederick Jones Bliss and R.A.S.
- 5.3 miWArchaeological site
Tel Erani, Kiryat Gat
137 min walk • Tel Erani or Tell esh-Sheikh Ahmed el-ʿAreini is a multi-period archaeological site on the outskirts of Kiryat Gat in the Southern District of Israel. It is also known by the name ʻIrâq el-Menshiyeh, although thought to have borne the original Arabic name of Menshiyet es-Saḥalīn.
- 5.5 miWArchaeological site
Kefar Shihlayim, Kiryat Gat
141 min walk • Kefar Shiḥlayim, a place name compounded of the word "Kefar" plus a denominative, was a Jewish town in the Judean lowlands during the Second Temple period.
- 2.5 miWArchaeological site
Tel Zayit
65 min walk • Tel Zayit is an archaeological tell in the Shephelah, or lowlands, of Israel, about 30 km east of Ashkelon.
- 6.2 miNENature, Natural attraction, Valley
Valley of Elah
159 min walk • The Valley of Elah or Ella Valley, called in Arabic: وادي السنط, Wadi es-Sunt, is a long, shallow valley in Israel and the West Bank best known as the place described in the Hebrew Bible where the Israelites were encamped when David fought Goliath.
- 5.6 miSEArchaeological site
Khirbet Beit Lei
143 min walk • Khirbet Beit Lei or Beth Loya is an archaeological tell in the Judean lowlands of Israel. It is located about 5.5 km southeast of Tel Lachish and ten miles west-northwest of Hebron, on a hill 400 m above sea level.
- 5.1 miEArchaeological site
Adullam-France Park
130 min walk • Adullam-France Park, also known as Parc de France-Adoulam, is a sprawling park of 50,000 dunams in the Central District of Israel, located south of Beit Shemesh.
- 2.9 miSENature, Natural attraction, Protected area
Maresha, Avdat
75 min walk • Tel Maresha is the tell of the biblical Iron Age city of Maresha, and of the subsequent, post-586 BCE Idumean city known by its Hellenised name Marisa, Arabised as Marissa.
- 6 miNENature, Natural attraction, Forest
Britannia Park
153 min walk • Britannia Park is a forest and recreation area in Israel, in the Judean lowland. The forest was planted by the Jewish National Fund starting in the 1950s, and with the financial aid of British Jews, after whom the park was named.
- 4 miNE31°39'26"N • 34°56'4"E
The Columbarium, Adullam Grove Nature Reserve
104 min walk • Nature, Natural attraction, Cave