Tel Aviv History

In the early 1900s, the land upon which much of Tel Aviv stands was mainly sand dune and uncultivated scrub. In the decades before the founding of the city, migrating Jews had taken up residence with a native Jewish community in the ancient port town of Jaffa.In 1881, the Yemenite Jews moved beyond Jaffa’s walls to establish the basis of today’s picturesque

St Petersburg History

Founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, the former capital of Russia was once known as the Venice of the North but was almost destroyed during WWII before being left to decline under Stalin.Perched on a series of islands, where the River Neva meets the Gulf of Finland, St Petersburg was a planned city, with construction personally supervised by Peter the