ancient ruins
Caesarea Maritima
A spectacular Roman-era port city with a grand amphitheater, aqueducts, and crusader fortifications on the Mediterranean coast.
22 km · about 25 min drive
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Atlit
Haifa, Israel · Asia
About Atlit
Atlit is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Tsrufa, 47km from Rosh HaNikra Grottoes.
Atlit is in Haifa, Israel, with about 8,900 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Tsrufa, about 5 km away.
Atlit (Hebrew: עַתְלִית, Arabic: عتليت) is a coastal town located south of Haifa, Israel. The community is in the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council in the Haifa District of Israel.
Off the coast of Atlit is a submerged Neolithic village. The town of Atlit is named after the nearby Crusader outpost and fortified town ofRead more
Atlit, also known as Château Pèlerin, which although in ruins remained populated until 1948.
The town was established in 1903 under the auspices of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, approximately two kilometers south of the historical site which was then a small Palestinian village. The Atlit detainee camp is nearby, which was used by the British to intern Jewish refugees and is now a museum. From 1950 until the unification of the municipalities in 2003, Atlit was a local council whose jurisdiction was 14,000 dunams. In 2024 the population was 11,611.
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What is there to see near Atlit?
Within an hour or so of Atlit: Caesarea Maritima (22 km), Akko (Acre) (29 km), Rosh HaNikra Grottoes (47 km), Mount Arbel (54 km).
Where is Atlit?
Atlit is in Haifa, Israel, about 5 km from Tsrufa.
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- Population
- 8,875
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Israel
- Region
- Haifa
- Timezone
- Asia/Jerusalem
- Coordinates
- 32.6889, 34.9424
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Worth the detour from Atlit
4 notable places within an hour's drive.
ancient ruins
Akko (Acre)
A UNESCO-listed Crusader city with remarkably preserved underground knights' halls, Ottoman bazaars, and fortifications on the Mediterranean coast.
29 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
Rosh HaNikra Grottoes
Sea-carved tunnels running 200m through white chalk cliffs on the Lebanese border, reached by a cable car advertised as the world's steepest at a 60-degree gradient. The water inside glows electric blue.
47 km · about 55 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Mount Arbel
A cliff dropping 380m to the Sea of Galilee, with fortified caves cut into its face by Jewish rebels and a lookout taking in the whole lake to the Golan. Israel's only base-jumping mountain.
54 km · about 65 min drive
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- 54 kmMount ArbelA cliff dropping 380m to the Sea of Galilee, with fortified caves cut into its face by Jewish rebels and a lookout taking in the whole lake to the Golan. Israel's only base-jumping mountain.
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