MASADA

Masada is the most visited site in Israel with one million visitors a year. As you take the cable car up to the mountain top fortress, you realize the reason for the site’s popularity. Masada holds exquisite remains of a luxurious fortress built 2000 years ago for king Herod. At the site, visitors can witness the lavish life of the fortress with its decorated palaces with superb views worthy of a king, its large bathhouse and storage room for overseas goods, its columbarium, and its large water cisterns. But it is the epic event that occurred 100 years later that made Masada the legend it is today. Remarkable remains of a jewish community are a visible proof of the rebels that found refuge in the fortress, and their bitter heroic story is one that is shaping Israeli identity until today. Come and stand at the top of the world and witness the old past of the land that shapes its present until today.