Historical landmark
Jaffa Gate
Sixteenth-century Ottoman city gate with an L-shaped defensive passage, breached in eighteen ninety eight for a visiting Kaiser.
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Location
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About this audio guide
Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem opens onto a story of two different arrivals into the Old City. The guide sets up Suleiman the Magnificent's sixteenth-century gate, built as the grand pilgrim entrance from the port of Jaffa, with its defensive L-shaped turn just inside the doorway. It then turns to 1898, when Kaiser Wilhelm II arrived and had Ottoman workers cut a gap beside the gate rather than bow his head to enter. Locals had long repeated a prophecy about whoever entered the city on a white horse becoming its ruler.
This audio guide was created using AI.