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If walking in Old Jaffa, you will wander on the street Dagim Mazal (Mazal Dagim), not turn left, walk a little further to the right through the arch at home to St. Aryeh Mazal (Mazal Arie). There you will see the floating orange tree.


Orange tree — the symbol of Jaffa. Some people call tel Aviv–Jaffa "Large orange", by analogy with the nickname of new York "the Big Apple". Old Jaffa is a popular place for artists. Confirmation of this — numerous sculptures in the streets. Hovering orange tree is a real tree planted in a pot in the form of clay balls and attached with ropes to neighboring houses so that it hangs in the air.


The sculpture made by rené Morin, for all its unusual artistic solution, perfectly fit into the architectural environment of the Jaffa and is its highlight. Tourists are often told legend about the floating orange tree. A local resident planted an orange tree in the land, came the municipal officials and forced it to cut, it happened several times.


It is illegal to plant trees on municipal land. He took and hung from the tree so that the earth does not touch it. The lawyers were powerless. Anyway the soaring tree pleases the residents of Jaffa and tourists to this day.

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