Caesarea
Caesarea is a national park on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, in the northern part of the Sharon region. The park encompasses a vast archaeological site that showcases the remains of the Roman Imperial city of Caesarea Maritima.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Idomeir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
- Type: Ruins
- Description: ancient Levantine city
- Also known as: “Caesarea in Palaestina”, “Caesarea Maritima”, “Caesarea National Park”, “Caesarea Old City”, “Horbat Qesari”, “Kaisareia”, “Kaisarie”, “Kaisariya”, “Kaisariyeh”, “Qeisari”, “Qeisariya”, “Qisarī”, “Qīsārya”, and “Qisrī”
Photo: DerHexer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Caesarea Amphitheater and Bird Mosaic.
Caesarea Amphitheater
Theater building
Photo: Giladtop, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Caesarea Amphitheater is a theater building.
Bird Mosaic
Archaeological site
The Birds Mosaic is a Byzantine mosaic floor discovered in Caesarea Maritima, in modern Israel, in a Byzantine palace that was built around 600 AD. It is viewable in situ.
Herodian Hippodrome
Archaeological site
Photo: Drahnier, Copyrighted free use.
Herodian Hippodrome is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Or Akiva and Caesarea.
Or Akiva
Town
Photo: Jim Greenhill, CC BY 2.0.
Or Akiva is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel, on the country's coastal plain. It is located inland from the ancient port city of Caesarea and the Mediterranean Sea, and to the north of the city of Hadera.
Caesarea
Town
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
Caesarea, also transliterated as Keisarya or Qaysaria, is an affluent resort town in north-central Israel, which was named after the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima situated 1–2 kilometres to the south in the adjacent Caesarea National Park.
Sdot Yam
Village
Sdot Yam is a kibbutz in the Haifa District of Israel. Located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council.
Caesarea
Latitude
32.5018° or 32° 30′ 7″ northLongitude
34.8924° or 34° 53′ 33″ eastPopulation
5,340Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
8G4PGV2R+PXOpenStreetMap ID
node 266828122OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsGeoNames ID
294716Wikidata ID
Q319242
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Caesarea” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قيسارية ماريتيما”
- Arabic: “قيصرية فلسطين”
- Armenian: “Կեսարիա”
- Azerbaijani: “Fələstin Qeysəriyyəsi”
- Azerbaijani: “İsrail Kesariyası”
- Azerbaijani: “Kesariya milli parkı”
- Azerbaijani: “Qeysəriyyə”
- Basque: “Zesarea Maritima”
- Belarusian: “Кейсарыя”
- Belarusian: “Кесарыя Палесцінская”
- Belarusian: “Кесарыя”
- Bosnian: “Cezarija”
- Breton: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Bulgarian: “Кесария”
- Catalan: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Catalan: “Caesarea Palaestina”
- Catalan: “Cesarea de Palestina”
- Catalan: “Cesarea Marítima”
- Cebuano: “H̱orbat Qesari”
- Chinese: “滨海凯撒里亚”
- Chinese: “濱海凱撒里亞”
- Czech: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Czech: “Caesarea Přímořská”
- Czech: “Césarea Přímořská”
- Danish: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Danish: “Cæsarea Palæstina”
- Dutch: “Caesarea (Maritima)”
- Dutch: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Dutch: “Caesarea”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قيصريه”
- Esperanto: “Ĉemara Cezareo”
- Finnish: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Finnish: “Caesarea Palestinae”
- French: “Caesarea Maritima”
- French: “Cesarea”
- French: “Césarée de Palestine”
- French: “Césarée maritime”
- French: “Cesaree”
- French: “Césarée”
- French: “Tour de Straton”
- Galician: “Cesarea Marítima”
- Georgian: “კესარია”
- German: “Caesarea Maritima”
- German: “Caesarea Palaestina”
- German: “Caesarea-Nationalpark”
- German: “Caesarea”
- German: “Stratons Turm”
- German: “Stratos Turm”
- German: “Stratos‘ Turm”
- Greek: “Καισάρεια η παράλιος”
- Greek: “Παράλιος Καισάρεια”
- Hebrew: “גן לאומי קיסריה”
- Hebrew: “העיר העתיקה קיסריה”
- Hebrew: “חורבת קיסרי”
- Hebrew: “קיסריה העתיקה”
- Hebrew: “קיסריה”
- Hebrew: “קסריה”
- Hungarian: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Hungarian: “palesztinai Cézárea”
- Hungarian: “palesztinai Kaiszareia”
- Indonesian: “Kaisarea Maritima”
- Italian: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Italian: “Cesarea di Palestina”
- Italian: “Cesarea in Palestina”
- Italian: “Cesarea marittima”
- Italian: “Cesarea Marittima”
- Italian: “Cesarea”
- Japanese: “カイサリア・マリティマ”
- Japanese: “カイサリア”
- Japanese: “カエサレア”
- Japanese: “海辺のカイサリア”
- Korean: “카에사레아 마리티마”
- Latin: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Latin: “Caesarea Palaestinae”
- Luxembourgish: “Caesarea”
- Macedonian: “Приморска Цезарија”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Norwegian: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cesarèa”
- Persian: “قیساریه دریایی”
- Persian: “قیصریه دریایی”
- Polish: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Polish: “Cezarea Nadmorska”
- Polish: “Cezarea Palestyńska”
- Polish: “Cezarea”
- Portuguese: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Portuguese: “Cesareia de Palestina”
- Portuguese: “Cesareia Maritima”
- Portuguese: “Cesareia Marítima”
- Portuguese: “Cesareia Palestina”
- Portuguese: “Cesaréia Palestina”
- Romanian: “Cezareea Maritima”
- Russian: “Кесария Палестинская”
- Russian: “Кесария Стратонова”
- Russian: “Национальный парк Кесария”
- Rusyn: “Кесария Палестинска”
- Scots: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Serbian: “Primorska Cezareja”
- Serbian: “Приморска Цезареја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palestinska Cezareja”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Primorska Cezareja”
- Silesian: “Cezarea Przimorskŏ”
- Slovenian: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Slovenian: “Cezareja”
- Spanish: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Spanish: “Cesarea Marítima”
- Spanish: “Cesárea Maritima”
- Swahili: “Kaisarea Baharini”
- Swedish: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Swedish: “Caesarea Martima”
- Swedish: “Quisarya”
- Tagalog: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Tagalog: “Caesarea Palaestina”
- Tagalog: “Cesarea Palestina”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Caesarea Palaestina”
- Tamil: “செசாரியா கடற்கரையோரம்”
- Turkish: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Ukrainian: “Кесарія Палестинська”
- Urdu: “قیساریہ بحری”
- Urdu: “قیصریہ بحری”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cesarea Maritima”
- Welsh: “Caesarea Maritima”
- Yiddish: “קסרי”
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