Jerusalem - Districts Northwest and Southwest of the Old City

Outside the northwest corner of the Old City, 300m/330yds from the Jaffa Gate, is Zahal Square (Kikar Zahal). From here HaZanhanim Street runs northeast towards the Damascus Gate, passing the New Gate, opposite which is the Hospice of Notre Dame de France (1877), and Jaffa (Yafo) Road runs northwest to Bar Kochba Square and Zion Square, central features of the new town of Jerusalem.