Haifa is one of the Middle East's most picturesque cities. The views from the top of majestic Mt Carmel are breathtaking, especially from the Baha'i Gardens, but almost everywhere you look in the city there are interesting, if not always beautiful, urban landscapes, many from the late Ottoman and Mandate periods.Haifa was intended by British planners to serve as the Levant's... lonelyplanet.com