Tel Aviv city tour (The orange routes)

Tel Aviv offers four self guided tours to lead you throughout the city's most interesting places, each of which has its own national and cultural significance. To follow these routes, you just need to follow the large orange and green directional signposts that will lead you through town. Theses tours are known as the Orange (Tapuz) Routes and they all begin at 5 Shalom Aleichem Street.

If you wish to see some of the historical cornerstones of Tel Aviv, follow route #1, the main route that will guide you through the history of some of Tel Aviv's leading characters. Along the route, you will find the first town hall, the house of Bialik, Israel's national poet, at 22 Bialik St, with its massive book collection and dozens of paintings, and a small museum that used to be the residence of the famous painter Reuven Rubin (42 Hovevei Zion St.).

Shalom Tower (Migdal Shalom) at 9 Ahad Haam St. is another stop in this Tel Aviv city tour: It is where the first high-school of Tel Aviv was built, and has some lovely views of the city from its observation deck. Other interesting stops include the house of the city's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, known as the independence hall (16 Rothschild Blvd), where Israel's independence was proclaimed, and the Haganah Museum (23 Rothschild Blvd), which follows the history of Israel's defense prior to the establishment of the Israeli defense force.

There are three other routes to guide you through different parts of the city. Tel Aviv city tour #2 includes Habimah National Theater (1 Tarsat St.), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (27 Shaul Hamelech Blvd.), Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center (19 Shaul Hamelech Blvd.), Rabin Square and the City Hall (69 Ibn Gvirol St.). Route #3 is a fun journey in Jaffa that includes the Etzel museum (next to Charles Clore garden), the Clock Tower and a nice walk in the old city. Route #4 is a journey by car alongside the Yarkon River. This Tel Aviv city tour includes the Eretz Israel Tel Aviv Museum, The Museum of the Jewish Diaspora (in Tel Aviv University), Hayarkon Park and The Israel Trade Fair and Convention Center.

You can receive a brochure about the Orange Routes in the Tel Aviv city hall at 69 Ibn Gvirol St. and in the new central bus station at 108 Levinski St.