Tag: Landscape

The Shechem of the Old Testament, and Sychar of the New, once the capital of Samaria, was a city of very high antiquity, and eminent renown.

Jacob’s Well in Samaria at the foot of Mount Garizim near Nablus.

Jacob’s Well (the Well of the Samaritan Woman) is a well in Samaria at the foot of Mount Garizim near biblical Shechem (now Nablus).

Nothing can be more charming than a morning walk in the immediate neighborhood of Galle. Sketches of Ceylon.

This Sketch, in addition to the view of the City, gives, in the distance, crowning a lofty hill, the City of Safed.

The sea of Tiberias bears also the name of the Sea of Galilee, from the province; of Tiberias, from the City; and of Gennesareth.

The town of Tiberias viewed from the Roman ruins at the hot springs south of the city.

The ancient City of Tiberias, built by Herod Antipas, and named in honor of his patron, the Emperor Tiberius, has long since perished.

In the New Testament, Cana is considered the setting of the wedding at Cana, which is exclusively narrated in John’s Gospel

View taken from today Gongala Mountain range near Gin Ganga river. Sri Lanka near Galle.

The Franciscan Convent of the Terra Santa had been originally built in 1620, on the site of a Church of remote antiquity.