breakfast in our hotel is not included and costs too exaggerated in our view, almost € 7 each. For those who happen to be here, warning that only a few steps from 'Hashimi Hotel, near the Via Dolorosa, where there is a bakery with two or three spectacular € we bought several kinds of cookies and pastries for breakfast. We had breakfast with those in a bar where we took two tea (Lipton, of course after the Bedouin tea ...).
We have taken the NIS just arrived at the airport ATM, but wanted it you can do without. Everyone, even the last banquet of the souk, € accepting and indeed, tend to tell you the price in euro of the first thing I ask and then convert it into local currency.
The Hashimi Hotel, it has some flaws (the tiny bathroom for example) does not have that position. In fact, it is excellent, three minutes walk from the church of the Holy Sepulchre is the first day of our visit.
The church is one of the strangest and most fascinating of all I've ever seen.
strange because inside cross styles, fascinating because I've never seen a church so crowded with people of all nationalities, praying at the various corners of the multiform building. All this makes it unique the world.
The church brings together the various Christian denominations, not only in Jerusalem but throughout the world. There are however those of Jerusalem to have serious problems of communication between them as their own are unable to agree on the management of the church holds the keys to a Muslim family as a body superpartes, every family that morning's task is to open the church and to close it every night.
After the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to begin exploring the various neighborhoods of Jerusalem: the old town is divided into several quarters: Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Armenian. The Muslim side of town is the fence, complete with armed guards to defend the barricades to prevent anyone who crosses. We demand an explanation from Israeli soldiers on guard at eci explain that today is a day of celebration for Muslims, so visitors are not allowed, if we want we can go tomorrow. The souk
Muslims today are almost all closed, open ones are proprierà of Jews and Christians.
Jerusalem is not only a city patrolled by armed forces. It 's a city around the clock video surveillance. I think. In fact I have not been able to verify whether the views of many cameras were turned on or not. Sure, these are everywhere.
Some are in plain sight, some hidden, to be found. But every road is under the electronic eye.
Jerusalem struck us, among other things, for its cosmopoliticità. The Holy City of three religions and a place to meet a few meters in ideologies, religions and lifestyles different from each other.
Herein lies much of the charm of the city and made it, at least for us, so unique and special.
Together, logically, its artistic e culturali. E al bagaglio storico che si portano dietro.
Quartiere musulmano:
Inizio della via Crucis:
L'orto dei Getsemani:
La Dome of the Rock vista dal monte degli Ulivi:
Cimitero ebraico:
Il muro del pianto:
In molti di questi luoghi siamo letteralmente circondati da gruppi di preghiera al seguito del loro parroco, manco a dirlo la maggior parte di loro sono italiani.
Chiudiamo la giornata alla ricerca dell'ultimo acquisto serio del viaggio, il narghilè che vogliamo portarci a home after arriving in Syria (but for obvious reasons of space, we could not do before). He discovered a very nice in a souk, bargaining is not very tight in Jerusalem, but still managed to get a small discount. The backpacks are already overcrowded, it will be with me in a little bag. Hurry up the commission, we are left to think of the dinner.
We follow the usual advice of Lonely Planet and choose the Armenian Tavern, which is needless to say in the Armenian Quarter is the kitchen ... and guess what?
The restaurant is very distinctive and tasty dinner, I taste a dish of mixed Armenian specialties, Luciano decided that his stomach is full of experiments and take a fillet on the grill.
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