No single vantage point defines Jerusalem like the Mount of Olives. From its crest, the Old City unfolds across the Kidron Valley — the Dome of the Rock, the Ottoman ramparts, the domes and bell towers of the Christian quarters. The slope itself is a landscape of memory: one of the oldest Jewish burial grounds still in use, its white tombs descending the hillside in immense ranks; the olive terraces of Gethsemane; and a succession of churches, convents and monasteries built by Latin, Greek, Russian and Armenian communities, each marking an episode of the Gospel narrative. Pilgrims have climbed and descended this ridge for centuries, and the paths that link its sanctuaries remain among the most walked routes in the Holy Land. Shot in 4K at the hours when the limestone turns gold, the programme reads the mount as a single stratified place — funerary, agricultural, liturgical and political — and shows how a hillside of olive trees became one of the most photographed horizons in the world. Ideal for strands on Jerusalem, sacred geography and religious heritage.
