Midron Yaffo Park

This guide to Midron Yaffo Park begins in March 1799, when French soldiers under Napoleon Bonaparte marched Ottoman prisoners down to this stretch of coastline over three days after capturing Jaffa by force. You'll hear about the mass graves archaeologists have since uncovered nearby, and about the two iron cannons pulled from Jaffa's old port and set at the park's upper gate as evidence of that siege. From there it follows what this green coastal slope was built over decades later, and who laid the lawns and paths that cover it now.