Saffa, Ramallah
Saffa is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located west of Ramallah in the northern West Bank.
Saffa is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located west of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 4,374 inhabitants in 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Saffa, Ramallah
4 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.
- 01Khirbet Badd 'Isa
Khirbet Bad 'Issa or Khirbet Bad-'Issa is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, within Modi'in Illit. Archaeological evidence suggests that the site was founded in the 3rd century BCE, during the Hellenistic period, as a seasonal agricultural settlement.
2.7 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia - 02Khirbet Abu ad-Danin
Khirbet Abu ad-Danin, Horvat Abu a-Danin or Kh. Abu ed-Dinein is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, just south of Modi'in Illit.
2.8 km · archaeological site in the central West Bank · Wikipedia - 03Bareket observatory
The Bareket Observatory is an astronomical educational observatory owned and operated by the Bareket family. It is located east of the city of Maccabim, near Modiin, in central Israel.
3.3 km · observatory in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel · Wikipedia - 04Kh. el Kerena
Khirbet el-Kereina or Khirbet el-Qureina is an archaeological site located in the central West Bank, near Beit Ur al Fauqa.
5.5 km · archeological site · Wikipedia
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Getting to Saffa, Ramallah
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 20 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 88 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 91 km
- Eilat → Saffa, Ramallah261 km · quickest by road, 5h 50m · ₪115–150
- Amman → Saffa, Ramallah84 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · JD4.5–6
- El Arish → Saffa, Ramallah148 km · quickest by road, 4h 43m · E£365–490
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No local-transport research exists yet for Saffa, Ramallah
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 Saffa, Ramallah. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Bethlehem take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the Bethlehem bus station at Manger St.
- Get inFrom Jericho take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the central roundabout with the garden in the middle.
- Get aroundAs the city center is relatively small, it is not hard to walk to most destinations downtown (including the old city.) Service shuttles (shared taxis) are also available from downtown to most suburbs and to the outskirts of the city at relatively low prices (₪2.5 inside the city and up to ₪6 to nearby towns and villages).
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Next door to Saffa, Ramallah
Saffa, Ramallah is 21 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'utcity in Israel4.8 km
- GANEY MODIINIsraeli settlement in the West Bank3.3 km
- Bil'inPalestinian village in the occupied West Bank2.6 km
- Ni'linmunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate5.6 km
- HashmonaimIsraeli settlement in the Western Binyamin region4.4 km
- Kfar HaOranimterrorist settlement in the West Bank where Eliezer and Daniel who came first in The Amazing Race's Semi Final live2.5 km