The various parts that make up this full-of-life, squashed together, enigmatic area shares with visitors some incredibly challenging architecture and planning — or lack of it.

They constantly draw hundreds of thousands of Israeli and overseas visitors primarily to the sprawling, colourful and very noisy nearby Mahane Yehuda market, which was set up in 1928.

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