Budapest

This beautiful city is considered the most sophisticated of Central European capitals. Here you will find the third largest community of approximately 100 000 Jews in Europe. Jewish history dates back to Roman times, and Jews have always played an outstanding role in the city's economic, political and cultural life. Today, Budapest has many fine synagogues, kosher restaurants and Jewish schools. The unique Dohany Street Synagogue, the most impressive and biggest in Europe, stands next to the moving Holocaust Memorial, dedicated to over 600,000 Jews who perished during the Nazi reign of terror. The Jewish Museum has a wealth of artifacts and documents relating to Jewish history in Hungary. 

Budapest is definitely one more pearl strung on the Danube necklace, a vibrant metropolis offering warm hospitality and an abundance of Jewish interest.

The half-day tour includes a visit to the old Jewish Quarter in the heart of Pest, featuring the impressive Dohany Street Synagogue (Europe's biggest), the Jewish Museum with its wealth of Judaica treasures, the unique Holocaust Memorial, the memorial statue dedicated to Carl Lutz (the Swiss Consul who saved thousand of Jews) and the beautifully restored Kazinczy Street Orthodox Synagogue.

The full-day tour includes the above programme of the half-day tour with the extension of a visit to the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial in a former Jewish residential district, the unique medieval synagogue in the Castle District, the central Jewish cemetery on Kozma Street (world-famous Hungarian Rabbis' graves and Holocaust Memorials can be found there) and the Frankel Leo Street Synagogue on the Buda side.

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