Mid-range · 6-hour walk · Tel Aviv
The White City and the port in six hours
Four thousand Bauhaus buildings, the art museum, the market on Sarona and the harbour at the north end.
The three-hour route runs Jaffa to Rothschild. This one is the 20th-century city: Tel Aviv has more International Style buildings than anywhere on earth, about four thousand of them, put up by German-trained architects in the 1930s and UNESCO-listed as the White City. Add the art museum, a Templer colony turned food market, and the old port, and it is a full day on flat ground.
The route, stop by stop
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Bauhaus Center
A shop and small exhibition on Dizengoff that is the practical way into the White City, with a self-guided audio route.
35 min here Walk here → -
Dizengoff Square
Ringed by International Style blocks and holding Agam's kinetic fire-and-water fountain, restored when the square was lowered back to street level in 2018.
30 min here Walk here → -
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Israeli art from the 1920s on, plus a strong European collection, in a folded-plane building by Preston Scott Cohen.
80 min here Walk here → -
Sarona Market
A 19th-century German Templer colony whose houses were physically moved to make room for a road, now a food hall and garden quarter.
55 min here Walk here → -
Tel Aviv Port
Arrive by taxi from the previous stop
The 1936 harbour, built when the British closed Jaffa to Jewish shipping, now a boardwalk of bars and a farmers' market.
50 min here Walk here → -
Old Northern Beach
The sheltered cove beside the port, calm enough to swim in most of the year, and where the city ends its day.
45 min here Walk here →
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