Columns

While visiting Ceasarea (see former posts Ceasarea, Roman Amphitheater and Roman Aqueduct), I turned to the south and noticed the massive columns of an electrical power plant framed by the two Roman columns.  This is Israel's largest power plant, located on the Mediterranean Sea about 50 miles north of Tel Aviv. The columns of Ceasarea have been …

Ceasarea

Construction of Ceasarea began in 22 BC.  A large sea port, amphitheater, hippodrome, palaces, temples and marketplace was built by King Herod the Great in only 12 years. Herod named it Ceasarea after his patron Augustus Ceasar; it covers 164 acres and eventually populated to over 100,000. After Herod's death, Ceasarea became the headquarters of Rome's …