Tuesday, February 23, 2010

City of the day: Tel Aviv


Israel may not be the safest country in the world to go to, but the city of Tel Aviv sure does look beautiful. Here are the three highlights of the day:

1) The Yarkon Park is a large urban park (3.8 km²) in Tel Aviv, Israel, host to 16 million visitors annually. Bounded by Rokach Boulevard on the north and Bavli on the south, the park includes extensive lawns, sports facilities, botanical gardens, an aviary, a water park, two outdoor concert venues and artificial lakes. Huge concerts, such as Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour 2009, take place at the park.

2) The Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center is a performing arts complex, which houses the Israeli Opera and the Cameri Theater and welcomes about a million people annually. The complex is adjacent to the Central Municipal Library and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. At the back of the complex lies Dubnow Park.

3) Eretz Israel Museum, established in 1953, has a large display of archaeological, anthropological and historical artifacts organized in a series of exhibition pavilions on its grounds. Each pavilion is dedicated to a different subject: glassware, ceramics, coins, copper and more. The museum also has a planetarium.

This is part 29 out of a series of 50. Next city tomorrow: Dublin.

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