Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Northern District
Detourmap lists 94 places in Northern District, Israel, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Sea of Galilee. 57 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 94
- Oldest
- Tel Megiddo 6999 BC
- Little known
- 57 of 94
- Share of Israel
- 24%
Northern District 94
All 94, best known first.
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2.Capernaum
Archaeological · 2nd century BC · Renowned
Village at Lake Tiberias in the north of historical Judea, associated with Jesus
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3.Mount Tabor
Nature · Renowned
Mountain in northern Israel traditionally believed to be the scene of the Transfiguration of Jesus
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4.Tel Megiddo
Archaeological · 70th century BC · Renowned
Site of an ancient city in northern Israel's Jezreel valley
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15.Rosh HaNikra grottoes
Nature · Notable
Geologic formation in northern Israel; white chalk cliff face which opens up into spectacular grottos
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26.Gamla nature reserve
Nature · 21st century · Notable
Nature reserve and archaeological site in the Golan Heights
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51.Al-Sinnabra
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic site on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee
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59.Bet Shean National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Israeli national park that houses the ruins of the Roman and Byzantine city of Bet She’an and the high mound on which Biblical Bet She’an stood
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65.Omrit
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site of an ancient Roman temple in northern Israel
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67.Katzrin ancient village and synagogue
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Museum and archaeological site in the Golan Heights
Elsewhere in Israel
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Northern District?
Sea of Galilee. Largest freshwater lake in Israel. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Northern District?
94: 47 nature & landscapes and 47 archaeological & historic sites. 57 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Northern District?
Tel Megiddo, dated to 6999 BC. 17 of the 94 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Northern District here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Northern District if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Northern District is a first-level division of Israel, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.