On October 30, 2011 the Israeli Government designated a 16th-century ruin in Tzfat a National Heritage Site, part of a larger national plan to establish a series of heritage sites and routes in the country. The 700-square-meter site, in the heart of the city’s ancient Jewish quarter, is owned and operated by Livnot U’Lehibanot, a non-profit educational institution. It contains a series of old structures, communal areas, underground rooms and crawlspaces. The site commands a beautiful view of the surrounding hills of the Upper and Lower Galilee.