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The Galilee is a northern region of Israel, generally a forested highland area with relatively sparse population. Its landscape and historical associations make it a great draw for the traveller.

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• Afula - a medium sized town, not very interesting on itself, but it is the largest city in the Jezreel Valley
• Amirim - a vegetarian village
• Beth Shean - explore the remains of Canaanite, Egyptian and Romano-Byzantine cities
• Geva - a Kibbutz (small utopian settlement) founded in 1922 by Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia
• Metula - known as being the northernmost populated place in Israel
• Nahariah - boasts the Montfort Castle, a crusader castle located in a beautiful forested area east of town
• Nazareth - the hometown of Jesus, now the largest Arab city in Israel
• Qiryat Shemona - town in the far north of Israel, the name translates as "the town of the Eight"
• Safed - this fascinating city is filled with artists and mystics, boasting home to ARI, who established Kaballah
• Tiberias - located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, a modern resort town with an ancient background

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• Belvoir Castle - a magnificently-located crusader castle located high above the Sea of Galilee
• Beth Shean Valley - the core of the north Jordan River valley
• Beth Shearim - Jewish catacombs from the Roman period
• Hazor - the largest ancient ruin in modern Israel
• Jezreel Valley - an extensive inland valley, largely rural, extending inland from east of Haifa to the Jordan Valley
• Megiddo - an ancient Canaanite and Israelite city and the location of several key battles, both ancient and modern
• Mount Meron - Israel's highest mountain, if excluding the Golan Heights, at 1208 meters above sea level with several hiking trails
• Sea of Galilee (Kinneret) - diverse landscapes and settlements around the lake, many with connections to the life of Jesus
• Zippori - an archaeological site with the best preserved mosaics in a Roman town

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• A number of Druze villages have an interesting and distinctive culture.
• Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai is buried in the town of Meron, near Safed. Once a year on "Lag beOmer" (around May), hundreds of thousands of Israelis gather to Meron to celebrate the rabbi and his legacy of kabbalistic learning.

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Many visitors to the Upper Galilee sleep in a tzimmer - a kind of bed-and-breakfast place run out of a private house. Pretty much every town and village in the Galilee has a few of these.

• Halomot Naftali Boutique Hotel, ☎ 972-4-6802202, [1].  edit
• Mizpe Ha Yamim, P.O.B. 27 Rosh Pina 12000 (north of the Sea of Galilee, midway between the artist colony of Rosh Pina and the city of Sefat.), ☎ (+) 972-4-6994555, [2]. In Eastern Galilee close to Hermon Mountains, Golan Heights, Sea of Kinneret and between the artist village Rosh Pina and the city of Sefad.  edit
• Naftaly Estate, Moshav Ramot Naftaly, Upper Galilee, [3]. Naftaly Estate is an all wood-structured, boutique hotel built in 2000 on the Ramot Naftaly Moshav in the upper Galilee.  edit
• Golden Crown, Mt. of the Precipice 2015 | Nazareth, [4]. The Golden Crown Hotel is situated at the southern entrance to Nazareth - one of the loveliest and most fascinating cities in the world  edit

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