A trip to Jerusalem...for the Marathon and More - what an amazing city. This is inside the Tower of David, also known as the Jerusalem Citadel, near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the western edge of the Old City of Jerusalem. According to wiki, 'the the citadel that stands today dates to the Mamluk and Ottoman periods. It was built on the site of a series of earlier ancient fortifications of the Hasmonean, Herodian-era, Byzantine and Early Muslim periods, after being destroyed repeatedly during the last decades of Crusader presence in the Holy Land by Ayyubid and Mamluk rulers. It contains important archaeological finds dating back over 2,000 years including a quarry dated to the First Temple period'. It's one of a whole series of ancient and important buildings in Old Jerusalem that I'll be writing about on #LondonUnattached - but in the meanwhile, there's already a post about the amazing and very inclusive Jerusalem Marathon where you can run anything from a full marathon to 800 metres - and where the largest team is #TeamShalva - running to raise money for a very special Childrens' charity. ⁣ #ITravelJerusalem #Jerusalem. #TBIN #TTOT #exploremore #travelawesome #wanderful #writetotravel #exploringtheworld #guardiantravelsnaps #mytinyatlas #natgeography #darlingescapes #letsgobeyond⁣

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