Sarona
Restored nineteenth-century farming colony of stone cottages, now a leafy food and shopping complex.
This guide to Sarona in Tel Aviv traces the colony from its founding in 1871 by German Templer farmers who drained the swampland and planted orange groves, through to March 1946, when Palmach fighters waited along the road for Gotthilf Wagner, the colony's mayor and a registered Nazi party member. It follows how a Protestant farming settlement became the first Nazi party chapter outside Germany, and what the British kept on file about the man riding toward these streets. Walk the restored stone farmhouses, now wine bars and coffee counters, and notice how many of the thirty-odd buildings once belonged to a single family.
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