The Jewish quarter – one of four areas of the Old city between the Zion gate and the Temple mount. It seems that the maze of cramped streets hundreds of years. Surprisingly, it is not.

Of course, the city was noisy here long, not since the days of the First Temple. Under the Emperor Hadrian through the territory of the future quarter ran the main street is built on the ruins of Jerusalem colony Aelia Capitolina – the Cardo Maximus. (Now the site of the ancient streets have been excavated and turned into a Museum under the open sky.)

Over the centuries of the Muslim era lived in the neighborhood not only Jews, but the day came when there was not at all, in 1948, during the Arab-Israeli war. The quarter was besieged and destroyed, some of its inhabitants died, somebody ran, somebody got in a Jordanian prisoner. Many were convinced that the Jews will not return here.

Unique photographic evidence of those days the work of the English photographer John Phillips can be seen in the permanent exhibition "alone on the walls". In memory of the defenders of the quarter created a small Museum, on the former site of a mass grave outside Mamdot Israel is a memorial stone.

When Israel regained control over the quarter in the six day war of 1967, the area was just a pile of stones. Initially it was proposed to split the Park here, but won another point of view: to restore the Jewish quarter as the memory of the centuries of existence of the Jews in Jerusalem.

The new space was designed and constructed by the best architects of Israel. They did the unthinkable: building eighties of the XX century has a genuine aura of antiquity. The layout is chaotic, the streets of curves, up and down stone stairs lead, houses hanging over the streets... And at the same time it is a European city with clean sidewalks.

Quarter – life, full-of-energy part of the Old town. Residents there are only two thousand, but many yeshivas (religious schools), synagogues. Among them – the oldest synagogue of Jerusalem Karaite (X century) and the Ramban (XIII century).In 2010 restored blown up by the Jordanians Hurva synagogue, one of the largest world centers of Judaism.

There are many museums and excavations. In the center of the "Ariel" interesting scale model of Jerusalem in the era of the First Temple and the exhibits telling about the Assyrian siege. To the days of king Hezekiah (VIII century BC) excavations are Wide walls that defended the city from the Assyrians. A little to the North of it – the remains of the Tower of Israelites even the Iron age, the witness of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC Museum "Burnt house" tells the story of a dramatic moment in history of the city – its destruction by the Romans in the year 70. In the Museum "old Yishuv court" to examine how Jews lived here in the XIX – early XX centuries.

And the Park still broke – in the South of quarter wall. Once this territory was occupied by a Roman camp of the Tenth Legion destroyed the city of Jerusalem during the Byzantine era, there stood a majestic New Church (on the edge of the Park, its ruins are visible). Green, quiet place is symbolic for the Jewish quarter, the name of the Park Revival.