Explore Josefov, the Old-New Synagogue, the Old Jewish Cemetery, the Jewish Museum and Terezín with a licensed local guide selected for your language, interests and travel dates.
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Walk through a thousand years of Prague Jewish history, including the Old-New Synagogue, Old Jewish Cemetery, Pinkas Synagogue, Maisel Synagogue, Klausen Synagogue and Spanish Synagogue.
A private memorial-focused visit to the Terezín Ghetto, Ghetto Museum, Magdeburg Barracks, Small Fortress, crematorium and Jewish cemetery.
Tailored to the group
A personalised itinerary for family roots, bar or bat mitzvah trips, synagogue groups, schools, kosher travellers and guests combining Prague with other Czech Jewish heritage destinations.
Connect the buildings into one narrative rather than visiting them as unrelated museum stops.
Adapt the route for family history, religious background, children, schools or limited mobility.
Receive a guide selected for your group's preferred language.
Coordinate museum tickets, opening hours, Jewish-holiday closures and meal arrangements.
Visit Pinkas and Terezín at an appropriate pace, with room for silence.
Understand the difference between museum sites, functioning synagogues and today's Prague Jewish community.
A Gothic synagogue dating to around 1270 and one of Europe's oldest functioning synagogues. It remains a house of prayer as well as a historic monument.
More than 12,000 visible tombstones record centuries of Prague Jewish life. Notable graves include Rabbi Judah Loew, Mordechai Maisel and David Gans.
A memorial carrying the names of nearly 80,000 Jewish victims from Bohemia and Moravia, with an exhibition of children's drawings from Terezín.
The starting point for understanding Jewish life in the Bohemian lands from the medieval period through emancipation.
Exhibitions explaining Jewish customs, festivals, burial traditions and the work of the Prague burial society.
A richly decorated Moorish Revival building presenting modern Czech Jewish history.
A colourful Art Nouveau and Moorish Revival synagogue outside Josefov, also known as the Jerusalem Synagogue.
Read more about each building in our guide to the synagogues of Prague, or see the full route on the Jewish Quarter tour page.
| Josefov | Terezín | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Central Prague. | About 60 km north of Prague. |
| Duration | 2.5–3 hours. | 7–8 hours door to door. |
| Focus | A thousand years of Jewish life, religion, culture and persecution. | The Nazi ghetto, transit camp, propaganda and imprisonment. |
| Format | Primarily walking. | Transport plus walking. |
| Recommended for | Most first-time visitors. | Travellers wanting deeper Holocaust and family-history context. |
| Emotional intensity | Significant, particularly at Pinkas, but varied. | High. |
Most visitors benefit from visiting Josefov first and Terezín on a separate day.
Availability depends on your date, the language you need and each guide's qualifications.
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Join the guide networkSix sites, four hundred metres, and one sequence that turns a museum crawl into a story.
The carvings are not decoration. They are surnames, professions and priestly lineage, in stone.
An hour north of Prague, a garrison town that the SS turned into a piece of theatre.
A 750-year-old room, a real rabbi, and a monster invented three centuries after he died.
A reform congregation in 1868 chose Alhambra ornament to say something specific about who they were.
Three restaurants, one shop, two Shabbat kitchens and a plan for the days none of them are open.
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