The White City

The White City is the UNESCO-designated zone roughly bounded by Allenby Street, Begin Road, the Yarkon River, and the sea. Within it sit several thousand buildings in the International Style, most three or four storeys, painted white, with rounded balconies, ribbon windows, and flat roofs adapted for the Mediterranean climate.

The Bauhaus Foundation runs walking tours from its small museum on Bialik Street on Friday mornings. The standard route covers Rothschild Boulevard, Dizengoff Square, and the surrounding streets. The Liebling Haus, a fully restored Bauhaus apartment block on Idelson Street, is the best single building to visit if you only have an hour.

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In the 1930s, dozens of Jewish architects trained at the Bauhaus in Germany — many of whom had fled the rise of the Nazis — settled in Tel Aviv and rebuilt the city in the International Style. The result was the largest concentration of Bauhaus and Modernist buildings anywhere in the world: more than four thousand within a few square kilometres. UNESCO declared the area a World Heritage Site in 2003.

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