{"id":9410,"date":"2021-02-25T06:57:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T05:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omnesmag.com\/?p=9410"},"modified":"2022-09-14T09:05:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T08:05:19","slug":"tourism-of-israel-presents-the-space-multimedia-saxum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/cultura\/turismo-de-israel-presenta-el-espacio-multimedia-saxum\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel introduces \"Saxum Visitor Center\" to learn more about the Holy Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

The economy and tourism are returning to a reopening phase in Israel. Significant progress in vaccinating Israelis is beginning to bring optimism and a smile back to a country that has seen around 750,000 infections and more than 5,000 deaths in a year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reopening of hotels<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In addition, it has been announced that hotels in the country will reopen on March 7, and a digital vaccination certificate has been launched, which will also be used to access hotels from now on, for overnight stays only for the time being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 In 2019, 4.5 million people visited Israel, 10.6 percent more than the previous year. An upswing that was broken in 2020 due to the pandemic, and which may now begin to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context of a gradual return to normality, the Israel Tourism Office in Spain, whose director is Dolores P\u00e9rez Fr\u00edas, has presented Saxum Visitor Center<\/em><\/a>a multimedia space that helps pilgrims to better understand the biblical history and the Holy Places, which has come to be called \"the fifth gospel\".<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saxum Visitor Center<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Opened in 2019 in the town of Abu Ghosh, half an hour from Jerusalem, Saxum <\/em>is located on the Road to Emmaus, and gives the pilgrim the opportunity to have an encounter with Jesus, as did his disciples, and walk a path of about 20-21 kilometers, adaptable to any itinerary, as if it were a stage of the Camino de Santiago, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saxum<\/em> offers maps, models and descriptions of the Holy Places in different time periods, as well as touch screens and 4D projections, and multimedia tours explaining the historical, biblical and geographical elements of sacred history, from Abraham to the present day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visit to Saxum <\/em>which lasts approximately one hour and fifteen minutes, <\/em>serves in a special way to contextualize the pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Friar Luis Qintana OFM, who attended the webinar, pointed out that he sees it as preferable to visit the spaceSaxum<\/em> after the visit to the Holy Places. \"This I have seen, now I understand it better. The visit to Saxum helps to make a synthesis of the pilgrimage. It is a good stop, which seems better to make at the end\",<\/em> noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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