The village of Nain may be visited by making a slight digression from Sûlem. We follow at first the direct road to Nazareth above described, and then, after 35 min., diverge from it to the left. The road skirts the base of the hill and soon reaches (1/2 hr.) Nain, a small village famed as the scene of the raising of the widow's son (Luke vii. 11-15). The village consists of wretched clay huts. Near it are rock-tombs and a Franciscan chapel.
Bædeker (1898) Route 27 page 278
Nain.—... We ride on, sweeping round to the rt., along the rocky declivity of the hill, and in 50 min. from Sôlem reach the hamlet of Nain. Its houses are few and poor, and its situation bleak and uninteresting, though commanding a wide view over the plain, and among the mountains of Galilee. Round the village are heaps of rubbish and old building stones; and above the fountain, to the rt. of the road as we approach the place, is one considerable mound with a modern ruin on its summit. A few hundred paces above the houses to the S.E. are many caves in the hill-side, perhaps the old cemetery....