Welcome
The Saxum Visitor Center helps pilgrims to deepen their knowledge of the Holy Land through different multimedia resources. This, with the purpose of enriching each Holy Land experience.
Visiting the Holy Land
Saxum wishes to make a pilgrim’s vist to the Holy Land more memorable. Besides the Visitor Center, we offer digital resources that will help you prepare for the trip.
Emmaus Trail
The Emmaus Trail is an initiative of the Saxum Foundation, the Ministry of Tourism of Israel, and the Jewish National Fund (KKL). It is an 15 km hiking trail that can be traveled from Jerusalem without any trouble.
Latest News
The word “HERE” has never held so much force: Easter in Jerusalem
It’s Holy Week again. We’ve known the story and our church’s traditions for a long time – but what happens when we’re not only commemorating the events, but actually doing so in the very place where it happened more than two thousand years ago? Holy Week and Easter are lived intensely in Jerusalem and “to […]
Lent in the Holy Land
All around the world, the forty days of Lent are filled with different ways to prepare for Easter, and the actual place where the events of Holy Week took place is no exception. Here, the Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land organize various Lenten pilgrimages to the Holy Places. These pilgrimages consist of […]
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“Aquí en Saxum he podido ver la fe materializada con mucha visión de futuro y realmente un instrumento de paz.”
Amaya, France
“It should be the first or the last stop of groups, because it can be your introduction to the Holy Land and of what you’re going to see, or, if you come at the very end when you’ve seen everything, it ties everything together. ”
Hussam, tour guide, Nazareth
“Fantastic multimedia experience that helps understand the history, geography and geometry of the Holy Land and Holy Sites.”
Joel, United Kingdom
“I’m not a Christian, but I think this is a very good place, even for atheists, to learn a little of the history of the Holy Land. The Visitor Center is very complete in the sense that we can learn about the political organization and the Jews that lived here in that time”
Thomas, Brazil
Soprattutto al termine di un pellegrinaggio il Visitor Center offre una serie di strumenti per una sintesi del cammino percorso. Strumenti tecnologici d’avanguardia permettono di riprendere, secondo un percorso teologicamente studiato, il cammino appena percorso per approfondire e puntualizzare il messaggio evangelico contestualizzato nel tempo e nella geografia. Veramente utile e prezioso mancava in Terra Santa un centro così attrezzato e aggiornato per accompagnare il pellegrino nella comprensione delle Scritture in riferimento a Cristo.Fr. Francesco Ielpo, Italia