Haifa Port Shore Excursion: Nazareth and Sea of Galilee Day Tour from Haifa Port

You will visit the magnificent Church of the Annunciation which stands on what is believed to have been the childhood home of the Virgin Mary.

Nazareth is called in the New Testament the hometown of Mary and Joseph, and later the city where Jesus spent the first years of his life

Explore the 1st-century grotto dwelling under Saint Joseph’s Church. According to tradition, Mary, Joseph, and their son Jesus may once have lived here

The Mount of Beatitudes overlooks the Sea of Galilee and today is crowned with a beautiful church. It was on the slopes of this mount that Jesus is believed to have given the Sermon on the Mount. The church we see today was built in the 1930s and designed by renowned architect Antonio Barhuzzi.

The tour takes you to the edge of the Sea of Galilee, and the Mount of Beatitudes. Here you can picture Jesus preaching to his followers. Visit the Beatitudes Church that looks out over the Sea of Galilee.

In Tabgha we tour the Multiplication Church where Jesus miraculously shared five loaves and two fish between thousands of followers.

Visit Kfar Nachum (Capernaum), once the hometown of Peter, Andrew, John, and James. Here Jesus based himself during his ministry; exorcised demons and healed the slave of a Roman centurion. The main Christian sites in Capernaum today are the excavated Byzantine village; the remains of a 1st-century synagogue and an octagonal church built around the remains of what is believed to have been Saint Peter's home.

At the southernmost point of the sea where the River Jordan flows out of the Kinneret is the baptismal site Yardenit. If there is enough time you may be baptized here as Jesus was.