Baha’i Gardens

These formal gardens flowing 19 steep terraces into a resplendent domed shrine — the final resting place of this prophet-herald of their Baha’i religion — are Haifa’s crowning attraction. You will find bird -eye views from the stage on very top, but we highly recommend that the complimentary, 45-minute Panorama Tour. Tours start daily (except Wednesday) at 11.30am in Hebrew and noon in English. Arrive half an hour beforehand as it has first come, first served. Women and men have to be covered from shoulders to knees.

Hecht Museum

This college campus museum stipulates engrossing archaeological finds like well-restored mosaics and troves of ancient coins, but the pièce p résistance is your Ma’agan Mikhael Shipwreck, a 2400-year-old merchant boat located in 1985. Initially 12.5m , the boat would have hauled 15 tons of freight and contains a rare one-armed wooden anchor.

The artwork wing builds largely Impressionist and post-Impressionist functions (a part of creator Dr Reuben Hecht’s own group ), including works by luminaries such as Van Gogh and Modigliani.

Stella Maris Carmelite Monastery

The Carmelite Order was set from the late 12th century when Crusader-era pilgrims, motivated by the prophet Elijah, chosen to get a hermitic life on the slopes of Mt Carmel. Now the arrangement lives on across the world and at the’Star of the Sea’ monastery, whose present building was built in 1836 in the northern point of Mt Carmel. The ocean views are magnificent. Wear clothing that covers your shoulders and knees; guys need to remove hats.

Clandestine Immigration & Naval Museum

Employing a string of strong video reviews, this intriguing museum showcases the Zionist Movement’s determined attempts to overthrow Jewish refugees out of Europe to British-blockaded Palestine from 1934 to 1948. The centrepiece is a WWII landing craft rechristened the Af-Al-Pi-Chen (‘nevertheless’ in Hebrew) that transported 434 refugees into Palestine in 1947; intercepted by the British, they had been shipped to internment camps on Cyprus. The museum is conducted by the Ministry of Defense, and that means you will need your passport to get in.

Shrine of the Báb

Even though it’s mostly a pilgrimage site, modestly dressed people are permitted to input this domed shrine holding the remains of their Báb, spiritual predisposition to the Baha’i faith’s most important prophet Baha’ullah. Canadian architect William Sutherland Maxwell made the shrine to unite Middle Eastern and European fashions. It was developed in 1953 with Italian rock and coated Portuguese glazed tiles.

MadaTech

Kid-friendly science shows fill this tasteful 1912 construction, such as hands on screens in the sciences chambers, optical illusions and also a hall of mirrors (displays are tagged with the proper age category ). The construction was the first house of the Technion–Israel Institute and its towering arches and echoing halls are a joy to wander. When Albert Einstein seen in 1923, he planted a palm tree which still stands out front.

National Maritime Museum

This tradition, founded in 1953, covers five millennia of marine history across its three floors, from barnacle-clung amphorae into Israel’s current naval background. Temporary exhibits on topics from pirates to naval conflicts rotate on the ground floor, although the archaeological artifacts — Egyptian canopic jars and Roman remnants recovered from Haifa Bay — have been in the permanent set over. Explanation is in English and Hebrew.

Viewing Balcony

Situated about 100m up the Mountain in the tour Entry of This Baha’i Gardens, this Screening System allows a bird’s-eye view Across the Shrine of This Báb and towards the Ocean. It is a gorgeous vantage point for a fast photoshoot, but you are better off carrying a free guided tour of the gardens.

Haifa Museum of Art

Tough and modern, the Museum of Art’s three exhibition spaces exhibit mixed media and photography from Israeli and global artists. If you like confrontational art and lively argument, this glamorous gallery is well worth researching (and you’ll be able to people-watch the regional artistic community, that come here in droves to roam and scratch their chins).

Museum Without Walls

Over 60 open-air murals and sculptures form a path through the lanes and alleys of Wadi Nisnas, from superhero murals into mixed-media sculptures and pop art. Some are big and eye catching, others so small that you may walk past them; locate a map onto the beneficial site.

Elijah’s Cave

Holy for Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze, this cave is the point where the prophet Elijah is thought to have prayed before demanding the priests of Ba’al on Mt Carmel (1 Kings 18) and at which he is thought to have concealed from the wrath of Queen Jezebel later (1 Kings 19:1–3). Upon entering, follow the signals to different sections for men (to the right) and girls (to the left); the cave is really behind a velvet curtain. There isn’t much to see unless you are considering Jewish pilgrimage websites. Dress modestly.

Mané–Katz Museum

Ukraine-born artist Emmanuel Mané-Katz (1894–1962) has been a powerful member of this early-20th-century College of Paris and is famous for his colourful depictions of this shtetls (ghettos) of Eastern Europe. From the late 1950s he had been given this house from the Haifa city police in return to the bequest of his functions. Countless paintings have been displayed indoors, alongside antiques and Judaica.

Haifa City Museum

Split across two buildings, the City Museum examines Haifa’s final century of background and features rotating exhibitions on modern life here. Most intriguing are the screens characterising Haifa since the’Red City’ from the decades after the 1940s when Haifa needed a powerful socialist ideology.

Eshkol Tower

A elevator shudders up its way into the 30th-floor monitoring region of Eshkol Tower, the brazen high-rise topping Haifa University. Produced by famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, the tower has been finished in 1978. It’s been eclipsed as Haifa’s tallest building, however, the perspectives stay exceptional — who’d have believed that hulking Haifa could seem Lilliputian from over? A rewarding photo op after going to the Hecht Museum.

Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art

Launched in 1959 by art collector Felix Tikotin, this little, low-lit gallery immerses people from the sensory attributes of Japanese artwork. A trip here is best suited to Japanese art aficionados, although its 19th-century hanging scrolls, glazed bowls and calligraphy make a calming change of speed in comparison to Haifa’s other significant museums.

Beit HaGefen Cultural Center

In a classic stone building throughout the street in the contemporary Beit HaGefen Arab–Jewish Center, this gallery-cum-social space patrons interfaith cultural and social activities; call beforehand to organize two-hour tours of road art, neighbourhoods and spiritual websites.

Gan Ha’Em

Sculpted about the crest of Mt Carmel in 1913, this unethical, kid-friendly public backyard — whose title means’Mother’s Park’ — includes a zoo, a park and an amphitheatre that hosts free concerts on some summer evenings. It is situated across from the upper terminus of the Carmelit subway line.

Louis Promenade

A 15-minute walking course running parallel to Yefe Nof St, Louis Promenade delivers lofty viewpoints over Haifa Bay and links to other trails that thread their way round Haifa. A worthy photo op for aerial views; see .

Al Jarina Mosque

A couple of hundred metres east of Paris Sq is your overdue 18th-century Al Jarina Mosque, topped by an early-20th-century minaret that appears somewhat as a provincial English clock tower. The mosque is for worshippers just, although the opinion of this minaret surrounded by skyscrapers is an amazing picture.

Zoo

The shaded slopes under Gan Ha’Em are home into some streamlined zoo with free-roaming peacocks, an aviary, a reptile house and lands for reptiles, meerkats, ibexes, bull and much more, though enclosures for bigger animals such as bears and Bengal tigers seem fairly modest.