Nazareth

An Arab city in the Lower Galilee. Holy to the Christians, this is the city in which Jesus grew up. In Hebrew it is called Natsrat, thus Jesus was known as the Nazarene and his followers became Nazarenes. In Hebrew: Notsrim. Archeological findings indicate that Nazareth was populated already in the early Canaanite Period.

It is first mentioned as a Jewish city in the New Testament and continued to be so after the destruction of the Second Temple. Jewish Nazareth was apparently destroyed following the Byzantines victory over the Persians in 614.

Nazareth contains monasteries and churches associated withThere a Christian tradition, the most important of these being the Church of the Annunciation where according to Christian tradition the angel appeared before Mary to announce she would bear a son.

Our Introduction to the Holyland is just one of our many tours to Israel that take you to visit Nazareth