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Templars Tunnel

TIME : 2016/2/19 3:39:43

This extraordinary underground passageway, 350m long, was built by the Knights Templar (a Christian military order) to connect their main fortress, just north of the black-and-white-striped lighthouse at Old Akko's southwestern tip, with the marina (Khan al-Umdan). It was discovered by accident in 1994. You can enter at either end; tickets to all the Crusaders sites are sold at both access points. Inside, buttons let you start films in either Hebrew or English.