Voyage Prague Travel agency (Prague, Czech Republic)

Prague’s Josefov is home to many of Central Europe’s richest collections of Jewish historical and cultural artifacts. This tiny quarter, bordered by the Vltava River, contains plentiful exhibitions ranging from the centuries-old history of the Jewish people in the Czech and Moravian lands to modern Jewish art and history. The Moorish-style Spanish Synagogue is one of the most beautiful in Europe with magnificent interiors. Upon entering the Old-New Synagogue, we sense the spirit of a people who have worshipped within its ancient walls since the mid-thirteenth century. Its 700 year-old walls conjure echoes of a lively populace of craftsmen, artists and scholars. There are also poignant memorials to the terrible losses inflicted on the Jewish community throughout its long history in the Czech Lands. The Old-New Synagogue remains a defiant witness to a time of brutal pogroms, when the Jewish community was forcibly walled within the Old Ghetto. The Pinkas Synagogue, adjacent to the Old Jewish Cemetery, contains a stark stone memorial with the names of the over 77,000 Czech and Slovak Jews killed by the Nazis during the Second World War. We walk through the Old Jewish Cemetery, watched over by great rafts of rook nests high in the trees. Twelve thousand Jewish citizens were buried here between the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. The time-chiseled Hebrew on the jumbled gravestones tells us of the vibrant lives of some of the inhabitants.

  Individual English speaking guide (4 hours) — 80 euros

  Group excursion (4 hours) — 20 euros / person

Admission fees are not included:

  Jewish Quarter (Maisel Synagogue, Klaus Synagogue, Spanish Synagogue, Pinkas Synagogue, Jewish Museum, Old-New Synagogue) — 11 euros / person

  Old-New Synagogue — 9 euros / person