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Josefov
Prague's Jewish Quarter, with Europe's oldest working synagogue and an ancient cemetery of crowded gravestones.
- Open
- Sunday to Friday; closed Saturdays and Jewish holidays
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- U Staré školy 1, 110 00 Prague 1Directions
- Getting There
- Staroměstská station (Metro line A).
Why Go
The Old New Synagogue, from the 1270s, is the oldest active synagogue in Europe. Nearby, some 12,000 gravestones lean together in the Old Jewish Cemetery, and the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue bear the names of nearly 80,000 Czech Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
One Jewish Museum ticket covers most of the synagogues; the gilded Spanish Synagogue is among them.
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