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Outline of the coasts of Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon and modern-day Israel as seen from the sea.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Maps, Syria

Outline of the coasts of modern-day Israel and Egypt as seen from the sea.

Tags: Acre, Egypt, Israel, Maps, Palestine, Rashid / anc. Rosetta, Yaffa / anc. Ioppe

Nautical chart of the southern coast of Turkey, Cyprus and the coasts of Syria, Palestine and Egypt.

Tags: Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Maps, Palestine, Syria, Turkey

Nautical chart of the Mediterranean sea.

Tags: Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Maps, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Turkey

View of Mount Tabor. Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim on the plain of Nablus. The village of Nain in Galilee, where, according to the Bible, Jesus Christ raised the widow's son from the dead.

Tags: Holy Land, Israel, Mount Ebal, Mount Gerizim, Mount Tabor, Mountains, Nablus / anc. Neapolis, Nain, Natural environment, Palestine, Views

Mount Carmel with the Mount of the Prophets and Carmel monastery on its summit. On the left, the medieval city of St. John of Acre.

Tags: Acre, Architecture and built environment, Cave of the Prophets (Israel), Holy Land, Israel, Knights Hospitaller, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Monasteries, Mount Carmel, Mountains, Natural environment, Views

Frontispiece: Map showing the author's itinerary. Scene from the author's journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem.

Tags: Aleppo, Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Holy Land, Horses, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Lebanon, Maps, Natural environment, Noblemen, Palestine, Syria, Travel

Map of the Eastern Mediterrranean showing the places mentioned in the Old and New Testament.

Tags: Asia Minor, Bible, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Maps, New Testament, Old Testament, Palestine, Religious practices, Syria, Turkey

Mount Tabor. View of Nazareth. The coast of the Sea of Galilee.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Equids, Houses, Human types, Israel, Lakes, Mount Tabor, Mountains, Natural environment, Nazareth, Sea of Galilee / Lake Tiberias

View of Ramla, Israel. View of Bethlehem, Palestine.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bethlehem, Dogs, Equids, Goats, Human types, Israel, Palestine, Ramla, Tents, Travel, Walls

Ethiopian Christian priest and Ethiopian layman, Jerusalem.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethiopians, Ethnic groups, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Priests, Social sphere and everyday life

The Greek alphabet. Arab residents of Jerusalem.

Tags: Alphabets, Arabs, Baskets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greek alphabet, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Social sphere and everyday life

The Jewish alphabet. Greek Orthodox residents of Jerusalem, among whom a Grek Orthodox monk.

Tags: Alphabets, Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Hebrew alphabet, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Priests, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life

Arabic alphabet. Jewish residents of Jerusalem.

Tags: Alphabets, Arabic alphabet, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, Palestine, Social sphere and everyday life

View of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Pilgrims, Religious practices, Views

View of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Views

Panoramic view of Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Holy Land, Houses, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Views, Walls

Animals seen by the author during his journey to the Holy Land.

Tags: Animals, Camels, Crocodiles, Egypt, Giraffes, Holy Land, Israel, Natural environment, Palestine, Salamanders

Woman from Jerusalem. In the background, the house of Zechariah and Elizabeth at Ein Karem village.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ein Karem, Ethnic groups, House of Zechariah and Elisabeth (Ein Karem), Houses, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewellery, Palestine, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Inscription from Acre. Crusader coats of arms.

Tags: Acre, Coats of arms – Emblems, Crusades, History, Holy Land, Inscriptions, Israel

External view of the chapel of the Aedicule (Holy Sepulchre and chapel of the Angel's Stone). Section of the two champers of the Aedicule (Holy Sepulchre and chapel of the Angel's Stone).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

Plan of the Aedicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. The first room of the Aedicule (chapel of the Angel's Stone), seen from the entrance to the Aedicule.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

A Turkish man from Acre (today in Israel). A Muslic woman of the desert, of Arabic ethnicity.

Tags: Acre, Arabs, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Human types, Israel, Shoes and footwear, Turks, Women

A sarcophagus from the Tombs of the Kings complex outside Jerusalem.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Horses, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Reliefs, Religious practices, Sarcophagi, Social sphere and everyday life, Tombs of the Kings (Jerusalem), Women

The cave of Jeremiah in Jerusalem, with reconstruction of the prophet's tomb. The city of Jerusalem in the background.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Israel, Jeremiah, Jerusalem, Natural environment, Palestine, Religious practices

The Calvary Chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Costume - Hats and headwear, Golgotha, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Prayer, Religious practices

The Aedicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Prayer, Religious practices

Reconstruction of Salomon's temple in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Houses, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Mosques, Natural environment, Palestine, Religious practices, Solomon's Temple (Jerusalem), Walls, Walls of Jerusalem

A market in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Houses, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Social sphere and everyday life, Street markets and bazaars, Women

Maronite costumes from the Holy Land.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Holy Land, Human types, Israel, Maronites, Palestine, Women

Prisoners condemned to hard labour, at the castle of Acre. Among them, the governor of a local village, who has been found guilty of embezzlement.

Tags: Acre, Costume - Hats and headwear, Holy Land, Human types, Israel, Social sphere and everyday life

Costumes from the regions of Nazareth and Nablus.

Tags: Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Human types, Israel, Nablus / anc. Neapolis, Nazareth, Palestine, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

View of the Red Sea.

Tags: Egypt, Israel, Natural environment, Red Sea, Views

Remains of castle on the outskirts of Bethany, supposed house of Mary Magdalene. Fortress outside Bethany, called “Red Tower” (Torre Rossa) due to the many massacres which had taken place there. Site outside Bethany where Jesus wept when he heard of Lazarus' death from Mary Magdalene.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bethany (Al-Eizariya), Castles and fortresses, Galilee, Holy Land, House of Mary Magdalene, Israel, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Red Tower / Torre Rossa (Bethany), Religious practices

View of the ruined city of Trista in the Holy Land, possibly modern-day Al-Tira outside Haifa. View of Bethany.

Tags: Al Tira, Al-Eizariya, Architecture and built environment, Bethany (Al-Eizariya), Holy Land, Israel, Palestine, Views

Settlement on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, according to the author the biblical city of Bethsaida, native place of Apostles Philip, Peter and Andrew.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bethsaida, Galilee, Holy Land, Houses, Israel, Palm trees, Views, Walls

View of the outfall of river Jordan into the Sea of Galilee.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Galilee, Houses, Israel, Jordan river, Lakes, Rivers, Sea of Galilee / Lake Tiberias, Views

View of city near Tiberias. According to the author, it is the biblical city of Betulia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Betulia, Galilee, Holy Land, Israel, Views

View of Tiberias in Galilee, which, according to a certain tradition, Jesus Christ visited often as a child.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Galilee, Holy Land, Houses, Israel, Lakes, Religious practices, Sea of Galilee / Lake Tiberias, Tiberias lake, Views, Walls

View of settlement, possibly Capernaum in Galilee. Site where Jesus Christ fed the multitude.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Capernaum, Churches, Galilee, Holy Land, Israel, Religious practices

Fortress in the city of Kafr-Kanna in Galilee, usually identified with biblical Cana. The building is considered to be the place of the biblical wedding in Cana. In the centre, the well from which Jesus Christ drew water from, to subsequently transform it into wine.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cana in Galilee, Castles and fortresses, Galilee, Houses, Israel, Kafr-Kanna, Marriage at Cana, Religious practices, Walls, Wells

Fountain of archangel Gabriel in Nazareth, today site of the Orthodox hurch of the Annunciation in Nazareth. According to a certain tradition, Virgin Mary had gone to the well for water when archangel Gabriel appeared before her. Upon seeing Gabriel, the Virgin let the pail she was carrying fall and ran frightened back to her house. According to the author, at the time of his pilgrimage the church was used by Indian Christians (Alaphis), it is however possible that he is referring to Nestorian Christians.

Tags: Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, Architecture and built environment, Church of the Annunciation (Nazareth), Churches, Galilee, Israel, Medieval monuments, Nazareth, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Spring of St. Gabriel (Nazareth)

View of Nazareth. In the foreground, the cave where the house of Virgin Mary was, and where the Annunciation to the Virgin took place (today, catholic Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth). According to the tradition related by the author, Virgin Mary became frightened upon seeing Archangel Gabriel before her and hid behind the column depicted in the illustration.

Tags: Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Galilee, Houses, Israel, Medieval monuments, Nazareth, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

Church built on the site where Virgin Mary was frightened upon seeing the inhabitants of Nazareth pursuing Jesus. According to the tradition transmitted by the author, the rock miraculously split in two, so that the Virgin could hide inside. According to the author the church was used by Nubian Christians.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Mary's Fear / Notre Dame de l'Effroi, Churches, Galilee, Israel, Medieval monuments, Nazareth, Religious practices

Monastery of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem; according to tradition, it is built around the tree the Holy Cross was made from.

Tags: Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Medieval monuments, Monastery of the Cross (Jerusalem), Palestine, Religious practices

Monastery of Saint John the Baptist, on the site at which Saint John was born, at Ein Karem on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The house where Elizabeth hid Saint John the Baptist during the Massacre of the Innocents.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bethlehem, Ein Karem, Israel, Palestine, Religious practices

Remains of the monastery of the Shepherds, the site where the Angel appeared before the shepherds and announced the birth of Jesus Christ, at Beit Sahur (Village of the Shepherds) on the outskirts of Bethlehem. Site of the house of Saint John the Baptist at Ein Karem on the outskirts of Jerusalem; according to another tradition, it is also the site where Mary visited Elizabeth (today, Church of the Visitation at Ein Karem).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Beit Sahur – Village of the Shepherds, Bethlehem, Byzantine monuments, Church at Shepherd's field (Beit Sahur), Ein Karem, Israel, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

The site where Christ was born. The cave of the tombs of the infants slaughtered by King Herod. Monastery of Saint Nicholas in Bethlehem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Religious practices

View of the Church of the Nativity in Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bethlehem, Houses, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Religious practices

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