"The Old City" is the name of that part of Jerusalem that is within the city walls. The present walls were built by the Turkish Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, in 1540 and they enclose an area of 1 sq. km.  The wall has 7 gates (one of which, the Golden Gate, in the eastern wall, is permanently closed and one, the New Gate, in the northern wall, was breached only at the end of the 19th century). The route of the walls follows, for the most part, the route of earlier walls from the Second Temple Period down to the Crusader Period. Within the walls the area is divided into four Quarters: the Muslim, the Christian, the Armenian (also Christian) and the Jewish Quarter. The Temple Mount stands apart on an area of its own.

Seven Arches Hotel	Herodium	Armon Hanatziv Hills
The Jewish Cemetery	The City of David	The Kidron Valley
Mount Zion	Southern Wall Excavations	The Jewish Quarter
The Old City Walls	The New City	The Temple Mount
The Golden Gate	The Hebrew University	Augusta Victoria
The Lions' Gate	The Rockefeller Museum	Emek Tzurim
The Gihon Spring	The Kidron Valley Tombs