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It is here that, according to the Bible, the prophet Elijah would have fought against the prophets of Baal, a Canaanite divinity. According to tradition, the prophet Elijah would have hidden himself in a cave at the foot of Mount Carmel. Carmel is a chain of mountains of limestone formation, which detaches itself from the mountains of Samaria to advance towards the Mediterranean and to overhang, like a prow, the city of Haifa. It is twenty-five kilometers long and nearly fifteen wide, it culminates at 525 m. Carmel literally means: divine garden or orchard, in short the vineyard of God. Indeed, the water sources from its hills and gorges, gives it a rich and varied flora, typically Mediterranean: laurels, myrtles, oaks, tamarind trees, cedars, pines, and more. Because of this luxuriant vegetation, as well as the presence of its numerous caves, Mount Carmel had the reputation of becoming the den of criminals!! At the end of the 12th and 13th centuries, with the installation of the ...