Lake Tiberias Things to Do

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he Sea of Galilee, also Kinneret, Lake of Gennesaret, or Lake Tiberias, is the largest freshwater lake in Israel, and it is approximately 53 km.
is situated in northern Israel, near the Golan Heights, in the Jordan Great Rift Valley.
Today, tourism is the Kinneret's most important economic activity with the entire region being a popular holiday destination.
The many historical and spiritual sites around the lake, especially its main town Tiberias, are visited by millions of local and foreign tourists annually.
Other economic activities include fishing in the lake and agriculture, particularly bananas, in the fertile belt of land surrounding it.
A key attraction is the site where the Kinneret's water flows into the Jordan River to which thousands of pilgrims from all over the world come to be baptized every year.
Tourist also partake in the building of rafts on Lavnun Beach called Rafsodia.
Here many different age groups work together to build a raft with their bare hands and then sail that raft across the Kinneret

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Mount Arbel is a mountain very close to Tiberias with a great view.
You can hike in the trails in the mountain.

The mountain is 181 meters above sea level and 380 meters above the area.

There is a parking lot in the entrance , you pay 20 nis.
There are 2 trails - black and red , the black is a smaller one.

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Church of the Seven Apostles is a beautiful church located on the shores of the kinneret.
The church is a greek orthodox located on Kfar Nachum (capernaum).
The curch was built in 1931 and has red domes.

The church , as you can see from the name , is dedicated to the seven apostles.
The inside is very beautiful and decorated , and also a small church , it is a very impressive.

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Mount of Beatitudes is the name of Nachum mountain , located very close to Tiberias and has a great view to the Kinneret.

Up the mountain (which is 150 meters high above the Kinneret) you will see a lovely chapel , A Roman Catholic Franciscan that was built in 1938 by Antinio Barluzzi.

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The floor plan is octagonal, the eight sides representing the eight Beatitudes. The ceiling walls have a shape of an octagon, and on each side there is a window with one of the eight verses (although there are nine), starting with "blessed are...", or in Latin: "Beati ...".

The church is Byzantine in style with a marble veneer casing the lower walls and gold mosaic in the dome. In front of the church are mosaic symbols on the pavement representing Justice, Prudence, Fortitude, Charity, Faith, and Temperance.

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The beautiful Basilica of the Church of Mount of Beatitudes was commissioned by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and built during the 1936-1938 near the site of the fourth century Byzantine ruins to a design of the Italian famous church architect, Antonio Barluzzi.

You can watch my 2 min 23 sec HD Video Capernaum Church of Beatitudes out of my Youtube channel.

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On the northern shore of Lake Tiberius (Sea of Galilee or Kinneret in Hebrew), you will find the Mount of Beautitudes alongside Tabcha and Capernum. These three sites in the Christian religion is where Jesus lived and preached the "Sermon on the Mount". We took our friend Hrvojka who was visiting from Croatia to see these sites as well as several other important Christian sites in the north of Israel.

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Kfar Nahum (Capernaum) is a small village on the northern part of the lake .

The Christians believe that Jesus lived here for a while , and some of his apostles lived here too (andrew , peter , james , john).

There are 3 main attractions here :
* The synagogue - people think that jesus visited here although it is a synagogue built on top of other synagogye
* the old church that people think it was the house of peter - now located near the Franciscan church
* the greek orthodox 7 apostles church with the red domes