Qiryat Shemona is a northern city in the north district in Israel, located on the border between Israel and Lebanon.
It is a beautiful city that mostly known by its media coverage since it has became a target to rocket attacks from the Hezbollah .
The city, which located in A'hula valley in the Galil , is based on light industry and populates over 22,000 people.
Qiryat Shemona was founded at 1949, in an abandoned Arabic village and today it spreads over about 10000 sqm.
The city's central location in the Galil area has made it accessible, therefore over million travelers and tourists are visiting the city in a year.
In the city you can find Hostels and Resorts that character with an unusual atmosphere. The nightlife happening in a center that filled with pubs, nightclubs, coffee shops, movies theaters and restaurants. The city is also considered to be a center of business and merchandise.
In the last few years the city has been in a development process of new big shopping centers, lots of stores and new residence and neighborhoods. This progress is taking place in order to give an answer to the needs of the growing city.
As a large city in the Galil area, that located along road 90, Qiryat Shemona is operating as a center to all of the other towns in the area, in several services such as health, industrial, business and merchandise.
East to the city there is the A'hula valley, the Golan Mountains and the Hermon Mountain. In the west there are the eastern hillsides of the Naftali Mountain and the Ramin cliffs that rise over 700 meters high and in the north there is the Lebanon border. There is an old national park in the city that located in the gate to one of the most beautiful tour zones in the country, such as the Hermon Mountain, the Geological Park and the land of the brooks .
The views you can meet visiting the city are unique, therefore the area has developed on a great tourism basis, which attracts many tourists due to the advanced tourist services you can find there.
Among the tourist attraction there is also the observation post over the Jordan River, the Hermon, the Dan, Snir and Baniyas.
The museum and Bet-Ha'han are two more reasons to visit the city, along with the longest cable car that go over the cliff of Manara, and located in the south entrance to the city.
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