Ramla

Worth seeing in and around Ramla

6 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.

1. 01
   Weizmann Institute of Science

   The Weizmann Institute of Science is a postgraduate university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It was established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded.

   5.5 km · research institute in Rehovot, Israel · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Gezer

   Gezer is an archaeological site in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains at the border of the Shephelah roughly midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in central Israel. It is now an Israeli national park.

   9.3 km · archaeological site in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains · Wikipedia
3. 03
   White mosque

   The White Mosque was an Umayyad-era mosque, now in partial ruins, located in Ramle, in central Israel. Only its minaret is still standing.

   300 m · mosque in Ramla, Israel · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Church of Saint George

   The Church of Saint George is a Greek Orthodox church, located in the city of Lod, Israel. The church contains a sarcophagus venerated as the tomb of the fourth-century Christian martyr Saint George.

   4.5 km · church building in Lod, Israel · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Ayalon Cave

   The Ayalon Cave, in academic papers spelled Ayyalon Cave, is a large limestone cave near Ramla, Israel, with a worldwide unique ecosystem. As photosynthesis is not possible inside the completely dark cave, the food chain that developed inside is solely based on bacteria capable of chemosynthesis: the bacteria are consuming the inorganic matter available in the groundwater, and then themselves become the organic food source for the rest of the food chain.

   6.4 km · cave in Israel · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Great Mosque of Ramla

   The Great Mosque of Ramla is a mosque in Ramla, in the Central District of Israel.

   1.2 km · mosque in Ramla, Central, Israel · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Tower of Ramla

   It served as the minaret of the White Mosque (al-Masjid al-Abyad) erected by Caliph Suleiman in the 8th century CE, of which only remnants remain today.

2. 02
   Arches Pool

   An underground water reservoir with impressive arches holding up its roof.

3. 03
   Great Mosque

   Built as a Crusader church, this building was converted into a mosque by the Mameluks, and is still used as a mosque today.

4. 04
   Ramla Museum

   The building, from 1922, incorporates elements of Arab architecture such as arched windows and patterned tiled floors, and is the former municipal headquarters of the British Mandatory authorities.

5. 05
   British

   Best known for the grave of a soldier named Harry Potter, who was killed in the Arab revolt against the British in 1939.

6. 06
   Truck and Transport Museum

   An outdoor museum housing a large variety of old trucks (lorries).

From Wikivoyage: Ramla, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Ramla

Airports

Ben Gurion (TLV), 10 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 107 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 109 km

Stations

Ben Gurion Airport, 9.3 km · Ben Gurion Airport railway station, 8.1 km · Lod Railway Station, 2.4 km · Ramla Railway Station, 1.4 km · Lod – Ganei Aviv Railway Station, 4.6 km

• Eilat → Ramla

  264 km · quickest by road, 5h 25m · ₪105–140
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• Amman → Ramla

  102 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · JD6–7
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• El Arish → Ramla

  135 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · E£335–445
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ramla

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 Ramla. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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