Safed - Artists' quarter

Just off the south end of Jerusalem Street in Safed, is the artists' quarter, in a part of the town occupied until 1948 by Arabs - low houses, huddled closely together, in which there now live some sixty painters and sculptors. Many of them have their own galleries, and the former mosque serves as a showroom for them all. In this quarter is the Museum of Printing, illustrating the long tradition of printing in Safed (where the first Hebrew printing-press was installed in the 16th century). The museum also displays works of graphic art by leading Jewish artists.