Jaffa - Harbor

From the hill above St Peter's Monastery in Jaffa there is a fine view of the Harbor. A place of importance from the second millennium B.C. onwards, it was later superseded by Ashdod and Haifa and is now only a fishing and boating Harbor. Round the Harbor are cliffs and isolated rocks, on one of which, according to Greek legend, Andromeda, daughter of the mythical foundress of the town, Joppa, was chained until her release by Perseus.