Part of our family went on pilgrimage to the Baha’i world center in Haifa, Israel. You spend 9 days visiting some of the places that Baha’u’llah was exiled and imprisoned. This, at that time under the Ottoman Empire, was the prison city of Acca. Baha’u’llah spent 2.5 years in a cell in the Citadel and then later was moved to house arrest when the Citadel was needed for troops barracks. The walls of the city are immense. Doubled with a dry moat between them. Napolean’s forces couldn’t breach them. Akka has been occupied for some 6,000 years as it had a natural harbor and was a city where traders gathered and bought and sold their goods. Many battles have been fought here and it has exchanged hands many times. This view is on the eastern side and if I continued along the wall to the right we would have come to the land gate to the city. The only other entrance until recently was a sea gate which has been destroyed over the centuries. That gate would have been at the extremity to the left of the walls. I’ll have more from this trip coming soon I hope. It rained quite a bit while we were there and this particular day offers a view of the skies. In the far distance across the bay would be the modern city of Haifa or at least its outskirts. This one is 10.5″ x 29″ using pencil, pen and watercolor on some fancy paper. I have a barn wood frame for it so it’s going under that soon. $350 framed.