Tabgha
Tabgha is an area situated on the north-western shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel and a depopulated Palestinian village.

Tabgha is an area situated on the north-western shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel and a depopulated Palestinian village. It is traditionally accepted as the place of the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes and the third resurrection appearance of Jesus after his Crucifixion. The village population was expelled in 1948 during Operation Matateh ("Broom").
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Worth seeing in and around Tabgha
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.
- 01Capernaum
Capernaum was a fishing village established during the time of the Hasmoneans in Israel, located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. It had a population of about 1,500 in the 1st century AD. Archaeological excavations have revealed two ancient synagogues built successively at the same spot.
3.2 km · village at Lake Tiberias in the north of historical Judea, associated with Jesus · Wikipedia - 02Mount of Beatitudes
The Mount of Beatitudes is a hill in northern Israel, in the Korazim Plateau. It is the traditional site of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
1.7 km · mountain in Israel, near Lake Galilee · Wikipedia - 03Church of the Multiplication
The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish, shortened to the Church of the Multiplication, is a Roman Catholic church located at Tabgha, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The modern church rests on the site of two earlier churches.
600 m · church · Wikipedia - 04Church of the Beatitudes
The Church of the Beatitudes is a Roman Catholic church located on the Mount of Beatitudes by the Sea of Galilee near Tabgha and Capernaum in Israel.
1.7 km · church building in Tabgha, Israel · Wikipedia - 05Church of the Primacy of St. Peter
The Church of the Primacy of Saint Peter is a Franciscan church located in Tabgha, Israel, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee. It commemorates, and allegedly marks the spot, of Jesus' reinstatement of Peter as chief among the Apostles.
700 m · church building in Tabgha, Israel · Wikipedia - 06Khirbat al-Minya
Khirbet Minya, also known as Qasr al-Minya or Ayn Minyat Hisham in Arabic and Horvat/Hurvat Minnim in Hebrew, is an Umayyad-built qasr in eastern Galilee, Israel, about 200 meters west of the northern end of Lake Tiberias. It was erected as a qasr complex, with a palace, mosque, and bath built by a single patron.
900 m · 8th-century Islamic palace in Israel · Wikipedia - 07Monastery of the Holy Apostles
The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Apostles, in common use simply Church of the Apostles is the church at the centre of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Holy Apostles at Capernaum, standing among the ruins of ancient Capernaum near the shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. It is also known as simply the Greek Orthodox church at Capernaum, to differentiate it from the Franciscan monastery standing in the southern part of Capernaum.
3.4 km · church building in Capernaum, Israel · Wikipedia - 08Saint Peter Church, Capernaum
St. Peter's Church, also called the Pilgrimage Church of St.
3.2 km · church · Wikipedia - 09Zuttiyeh
Mugharet el-Zuttiyeh, also called as the "Skull Cave", is a prehistoric archaeological site in Upper Galilee, Israel. It is situated 2,900 m from the Nahal Amud outlet, approximately 30 m above the wadi bed below sea level).
2.2 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia - 10Amud cave
Amud Cave is located in the Upper Galilee, in the Nahal Amud gorge. It is situated about 30 m above Nahal Amud, right next to and above the famous pillar for which Nahal Amud is named.
3.9 km · cave · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tabgha
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 106 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 108 km · Damascus (DAM), 109 km
- Beirut → Tabgha114 km · quickest by road, 4h 33m · $19–26
- Amman → Tabgha109 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · JD6–7
- Damascus → Tabgha99 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · $11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Tabgha
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 Tabgha. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Jenin (and consequently Nablus and Ramallah) you can take a shared taxi (sherut/serviis) or hitch-hike to the border north (₪5-15 depending on the start) and cross on foot.
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Next door to Tabgha
Tabgha is 45 km from Irbid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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