Prague Jewish Quarter: Guided Tour

Additional Information & Description

Prague’s Jewish Quarter brings together historic synagogues and the stories of the community that shaped them. This visit combines a guided walk through Josefov with admission to five Jewish monuments, giving you both historical context and time inside the places at the heart of the quarter.

Explore Josefov with a specialist guide

Walk through the Jewish Quarter with a guide who specialises in Prague’s Jewish history and its people. The tour introduces the area’s past and modern life through stories about the community and some of its most notable figures. Rather than encountering the monuments only as individual buildings, you hear how they belong to the history of the surrounding neighbourhood. Live guiding is available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Enter four synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery

Your ticket includes entrance to Maisel Synagogue, Pinkas Synagogue, Spanish Synagogue and Old-New Synagogue, as well as the Old Jewish Cemetery. The visit takes you inside the included synagogues and into a cemetery that ranks among the oldest in Central Europe. These are the five named admissions included alongside the guided tour; the experience extends beyond a walk past the buildings’ exteriors.

A neighbourhood with a remarkable Jewish heritage

The Prague Jewish Museum preserves a historic pre-war Jewish neighbourhood that remains a contemporary gathering place and a living memorial to its people. Its complex of historical Jewish monuments is the best preserved in Europe. The museum’s wider heritage collection is also substantial: around 40,000 Judaica objects, 100,000 books and an extensive archive documenting Czech and Moravian Jewish communities. Those holdings convey the scale of the history preserved here, beyond the monuments themselves.

Where to start and how long to allow

Start at the Get Prague Guide office at Maiselova 5, just a few steps from Maisel Synagogue. Arrive 10 minutes before the start time. The visit lasts approximately two hours and 30 minutes, covering the guided exploration and monument visits. Tickets are delivered instantly, and smartphone tickets are accepted.