Audio tours

Jerusalem

Jerusalem is unique. Surrounded by mountains, it rises 750 metres above sea level, on the ridge of Israel's water divide. Ancient, and sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the city is a complex mixture of sounds and smells, peoples and cultures.

In the Diaspora, Jews have always prayed “Next Year in Jerusalem”. In Jewish tradition, the Dome of the Rock is built directly above the foundation stone of the world, the site of the beginning of creation, and therefore the centre of the world. For Christians, Jerusalem is the crucible of Christianity; where Jesus walked and taught, the site of his passion, death and resurrection. Muslims believe that the prophet Mohamed ascended to heaven from the Temple Mount; and in Islam only Mecca and Medina are accorded greater importance.

We have distilled a lifetime of experience in Jerusalem into just 75 minutes and 20 key sites, all marked on our hand-drawn map. With histories piled onto pre-histories, we point out for you the hidden gems as well as the high masterpieces of the Old City. We re-live anecdotes about the city and its peoples, about those that built Jerusalem, and those bent on destroying it.

'Mark Twain, the American journalist and author,

visited Jerusalem in 1867. On his visit to the sixth

Station on the Via Dolorosa, he wrote:

“The strangest thing about the incident that

has made her name so famous is that when she

wiped the perspiration away, the print of the

Saviour's face remained upon the handkerchief,

a perfect portrait, and so remains unto

this day. We knew this, because we saw this

handkerchief in a cathedral in Paris, in another

in Spain, and in two others in Italy. In the

Milan cathedral it costs five francs to see it, and at

St Peter's, at Rome, it is almost impossible to

see it at any price. No tradition is so amply verified

as this of St Veronica and her handkerchief”.'

Listen to the tour in one sitting to help plan your visit at home, or follow along in real time on the ground. And then take the player and map home as a souvenir or gift for a friend.

There are two ways to purchase this product:

Jerusalem City and Walls Tour and Map Package
Audio tour with pre-recorded and re-usable player, ready to play out of the box. The package contains: