Tel-Aviv - Free Self-Guided Audio Tour

Tel Aviv: From Dunes to a Nation — Founders, Ideals, and the White City

Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel

This walk follows Tel Aviv’s unlikely rise from empty sand dunes to the civic and cultural heart of modern Israel. Moving through boulevards, homes, and public squares, the route reveals how ideology, architecture, literature, and politics intertwined to create a city built not on ancient ruins, but on vision, urgency, and reinvention. Along the way, contrasts emerge between private lives and public power, between European modernism and Middle Eastern realities, and between moments of idealism and profound tragedy. The result is a portrait of a city that never stopped defining itself, and in doing so helped shape a nation.

Distance: 6.0 km
Duration: 3.0 hours
Number of stops: 16

Points of Interest

Shalom Tower  (Famous Building)
Rothschild Boulevard  (Famous Building)
Independence Hall  (Historical Building)
Monument to the Founders of the City of Tel Aviv  (Monument)
Bialik House  (Historical Building)
Bauhaus Tel Aviv  (Historical Building)
Liebling House  (Museum)
Tel Aviv-Yafo City Hall  (Historical Building)
Holocaust Victims Memorial for the Homosexuals  (Monument)
Jabotinsky House  (Museum)
Habima Square  (Famous Building)
Ilan Ofer Pavilion  (Museum)
Dizengoff Square  (Historical Square)
Rabin Square  (Historical Square)
Holocaust and Heroism Memorial  (War Memorial)
Ben-Gurion House  (Historical Building)