David Citadel

... downtown Aleppo region where I stayed, gave me somewhat of a negative first impression which the admittedly impressive and remarkably intact Citadel failed to fully ameliorate. But in any case, Cath and Reuben invited me to join them for dinner based on ...

... detract from the ancient style.   We entered the city through the Jaffa gate and made our way to the Citadel built by Herod.  Within the Citadel were three towers named after people Herod loved:  Mariamne, his ...

... imperial capital that was built by the first king of the Nguyen Dynasty in the early 19th century.  After our visit to the Citadel,   we also visited the Min Thu orphanage where 200 children are cared for by Buddhist nuns.  We then had a ...

... this we caught a bus home, gathered the younger ones (they stayed home with Cassie and Cherish) and set off again for David's Citadel. This is a museum depicting the various stages Jerusalem has gone through. We thought we would be too late as we'd heard ...

... We headed back into the city for lunch before going to the Tower of David in the afternoon.  The Tower of David, Citadel, is now a museum which shows Jerusalem thoughout history.  It was extremely interesting.  After seeing so many sites ...

... a City just outside the Old City walls.  His son Soloman built the Temple which became part of the City of David.  Thus, David Citadel in the Old City was not built by David.  The light show last night which was great actually had nothing ...

... Seth's Pallestinian friends. Can't wait to hear about that trip! Nina and I woke up and went first to the David Citadel, which is a Byzantine Reconstruction of Herod's Castle. Inside is a great museum that describes the long and complicated history of ...

... hang out. We had dinner with my cousins (Ken, Jill, Corey, and Eli) and then Amir suprised me with a hotel room at the DAVID CITADEL. Only the nicest hotel in Jerusalem. We had a room overlooking the old city, it was amazing. He had wine and chocolate ...

... soldiers to surrender to, but couldn't find any - their official surrender was to British chefs! * The Western Wall, Tower of David Citadel (which was built hundreds of years after King David), and other excavations such as the Roman Cardo Maximus. We ...

... place. Old Jerusalem is above all about history and we tried to take as much of it in as possible. The tower of David citadel museum has an excellent interactive program which did a good job of explaining the fascinating history of this city which ...

Got a slow start today after our incredible meal last night.  Fixed fruit for breakfast, then headed to Chinatown looking for cloth napkins.  I had hardly arrived when I came across a family from Michigan off the Celebrity Millennium cruise who ...

I stayed last night on the roof of the Citadel hostel near the Jaffa Gate and Tower of David at the southwest end of Jerusalem, which I'd passed by on the way to the Armenian Quarter my previous visit into town. From atop the roof you get an incredible ...

... to the hotel Abdullah had arranged for us and offered to pick us back up after we'd checked in to view the sunset from the citadel atop the nearby hill. Half an hour later we three, along with about 50 other tourists, were perched on the crest of the ...

... Desert Religions (Kim) Jerusalem is a city where the world's 3 great religions meet. We stayed in a quaint hostel called Citadel in the Christian quarter inside the old city walls. We picked a perfect place. The location inside the old city ...

... ) tour.  The old citadel was exactly how I imagined it to be--a giant fortress like city.  I spent $4 to go into the citadel's version of The Forbidden City, and I wished I had saved my money.  There is not much of the original site ...

... Jerusalem we took a tour of the old city. The first stop of the day was the historically miss named Tower of David, the ancient citadel located near Jaffa gate. Next stop the most contested religious sight in the world, Temple Mount, an elevated plateau ...