Extended Jewish Budapest – full day tour
Duration: 7 hours
This tour is for all those who are interested in the Jewish history more in-depth and happy to spend a day for seeing Jewish sights all around in Budapest.
This tour includes all the highlights mentioning in the half day Jewish tour, and additionally several other options – you can choose according to your interest in advance or on spot during your tour.
- Learn about the Medieval Jewish history. Walk around the Castle District and visit the still standing Medieval Synagogue. (Interior visit only from May 1 till Oct 30),
- Visit the Old Buda Synagogue,
- Visit the Frankel Synagogue in Buda, located hidden in a Courtyard of a building
- Walk in the former “international ghetto” area which is today upper middle class residential district of Pest. See the Wallenberg Memorial, Giorgio Perlasca Memorial etc..
- See where the infamous Eichmann lived in Budapest, where was the Gestapo headquarters or the Railway Station from where the transports left Budapest
- Learn about the Kastner story – the “bloods for goods”
- Visit Csorsz str Jewish cemetery with the famous Rabbi Koppel Reich zcl. grave sites.
- Visit the Kozma Str cemetery, which is one of the largest in Europe, is well-known for its unusual monuments and mausoleums. Here you can find sculpted human figures decorate the grave and mausoleums designed in a variety of styles, for example in art nouveau.
- See the present Jewish life in the Jewish Cultural Center or visit Jewish Schools, Jewish Kindergarten or the Israel Culture Center of Hungary.