Beth Guvrin Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Beth Guvrin
The city of Maresha, mentioned several times in the Bible, was located here. Later on, in the Roman period, the neighboring town of Beit Guvrin grew to become a major regional center: Eleutheropolis (Greek, Ελευθερόπολις, "Free City"). Today you can see ruins from these ancient cities, including burial caves, agricultural facilities, and an amphitheater. A complex of underground structures, an ancient “city under a city”, consisting of man-made caves, excavated from the thick and homogenous layer of soft chalk in Lower Judea is situated below the ancient twin towns of Maresha and Bet Guvrin. It was inscribed in theUNESCOWorld Heritage list in 2014.
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