Acre
The acre is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems.
The acre is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong, which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1⁄640 of a square mile, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare. The acre is sometimes abbreviated ac, but is usually spelled out as the word "acre".
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Worth seeing in and around Acre
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Jezzar Pasha Mosque
The el-Jazzar Mosque, also known as the White Mosque of Acre, is located on el-Jazzar Street inside the walls of the old city of Acre, Israel, overlooking the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and is named after the Ottoman Bosnian governor Ahmad Pasha el-Jazzar.
800 m · mosque in Acre, Northern Israel · Wikipedia - 02Al-Muallaq Mosque
The al-Muallak Mosque also known as the Mosque of Daher al-Umar is a mosque, located in Acre, in the northern district of Israel.
1.1 km · mosque in Acre, Northern, Israel · Wikipedia - 03Ghetto Fighters' House
The Ghetto Fighters' House is a Holocaust museum founded in 1949 by members of Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot. It is located in the Western Galilee, Israel, on the Coastal Highway between Acre and Nahariya.
4 km · museum commemorating the Holocaust and Jewish heroism · Wikipedia - 04Mansion of Bahjí
The Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh, known among Baháʼís as the Blessed Shrine, is the burial place of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. It stands at Bahjí, just north of Acre in northern Israel.
2.2 km · Summer house in Acre, Israel; death place of Baháʼu'lláh · Wikipedia - 05Or Torah Synagogue
The Or Torah Synagogue, sometimes the Ohr Torah Synagogue, also known as the Tunisian Synagogue in Acre, the Djerba Synagogue, and the Jariva, is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 13 Kaplan Street, in Acre, in the Northern District of Israel. The building was completed in 1955 by Jews from Tunisia and took over 54 years for the artwork to be completed.
400 m · Israeli Synagogue, located in Acre · Wikipedia - 06St. John Baptist Church
The St. John Baptist Church sometimes simply called Church of St.
1.3 km · church building in Acre, Israel · Wikipedia - 07Akko Light
Akko Light or Acre Light, is an active lighthouse in the port of Acre, Israel. It is located on the South-West corner of the city's ancient walls, at what is believed to be the former site of an Ottoman Burj-El-Sanjak.
1.4 km · lighthouse in Israel · Wikipedia - 08Acre Municipal Stadium
Acre Municipal Stadium, also Toto Acre Stadium, is a soccer stadium in Acre, Israel. It is the home ground of Hapoel Acre which plays in Liga Leumit, the second tier of the Israeli football league system.
2.4 km · football stadium in Acre · Wikipedia - 09Terra Sancta Church
The Terra Sancta Church, also alternatively Church of St. Francis, is the name given to one of the two Franciscan-run Roman Catholic churches located in the Old City of Acre in northern Israel, the other one being the Church of St.
1 km · church building in Acre, Israel · Wikipedia - 10St. Andrew's Church, Acre
St Andrew's Church is a Melkite Greek Catholic church. Built in 1765, it is located in the old city of Acre, at Philippe Auguste street, north of the Templars tunnel in modern-day Israel.
1.2 km · church in Acre, Israel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Acre
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 103 km · Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 106 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 137 km
- Stations
- Acre Railway Station, 600 m · Acre Port, 1.2 km · Tower of Flies, 1.1 km
- Tel Aviv → Acre98 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · ₪40–55
- Eilat → Acre375 km · quickest by road, 7h 9m · ₪145–195
- Amman → Acre135 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · JD7–9
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Acre
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Acre. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you don't know Hebrew, go to Herzl Street in Haifa, point an index finger at a 45 degree angle with the ground (the Israeli hitchhiking signal) when a service taxi drives by, and ask where it's going.
- Get inA foot-passenger ferry plies between Haifa and Akko on four days a week.
- Get inThis means a day trip is possible in either direction.
From Wikivoyage: Akko, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Acre
- Shavei Tzionvillage in Israel5.8 km
- Al-Manshiyya, AcreA depopulated village in the Acre Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine1.5 km
- Al-Sumayriyyavillage in mandatory Palestine which was depopulated in the 1948 war5.1 km
- Bustan HaGalilhuman settlement in Israel2.6 km
- Nes Ammimhuman settlement5.7 km
- Regbahuman settlement in Israel5.8 km