Four thousand years ago, Jerusalem was a small, isolated village between the Mediterranean Sea and the desert. Today, it is a metropolis of nearly one million inhabitants, a center of global interest that attracts visitors from all over the world. Over the intervening years, the greatest monotheistic religions were born in its soil, it was besieged by the most powerful conquerors, and the greatest empires clashed there.

Those who walked its streets over the centuries recount its turbulent and multi-layered history in the ten chapters of this book. All scenes and dialogues are drawn from more than 200 historical sources as well as unpublished archives, providing the necessary depth and breadth to this polyphonic narrative.