In front of the Chapel of the Virgin in the nearby village of El-Matariya, a popular place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages, is the so-called Virgin's Tree, a sycamore planted in 1672 in replacement of an older tree. According to legend the Virgin and Child rested under the shade of a tree here during their flight into Egypt. The little garden
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