Aqueduct

North Coast


Built by Al Jazzar around 1780 and reconstructed in the early 19th century, this Ottoman aqueduct once supplied Akko with water from the Galilee uplands. Take in a great view of this sweeping structure from the entrance to Beit Lohamei HaGeta’ot.


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