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National Park / Ancient Ashkelon Description
Some 2km/1.25mi south of the town center of Ashqelon, in a National Park (camping site, picnic areas, restaurants, beautiful bathing beach), are the remains of ancient Ashkelon, separated from the modern town by a broad belt of gardens and orange plantations. The whole area, which contains numerous remains ranging in date from the Philistine period to the Middle Ages, is bounded by a semicircular wall of the Crusader period, both ends of which reach down to the sea.

The wall, built by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1192, had four gates - the Jaffa Gate in the north, the Jerusalem Gate in the east, the Gaza Gate in the south and the Sea Gate in the west. From the entrance at the north end of the site a road leads to a large parking lot
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Hobbies & Activities category: Beach;  Archeological site or ruin;  National park
Address
Nature Reserve Authority
78 Yirmiyahu Street
Jerusalem
Israel
http://www.parks.org.il
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