Jewish Heritage Grand Tour

This tour was created for those, who would like to get a overview of the past and present of Hungraian Jewry’s and would like to understand the differences between our main religious wings. With the help of our English-speaking guides you will be acquainted with the most important chapters of the history and culture of the Hungarian Jewry.

The tour includes an interior visit to the Dohány Street Synagogue, which is the largest in which is the largest in Europe, local guided tour in the Jewish Museum, which has an important and unique collection of art pieces from Hungary and Eastern Europe. The Martyrs’ Cemeterywhere thousands were buried, who were killed during the WWII. The Raul Wallenberg Memorial Park with the Tree of Life which was created to remind us of those who perished in the war. We pass by the Heroes temple, which was built in memory of those who gave their lives during WWI. To understand the present we continue our walk to the old – new  Jewish Quarter, which was used as a ghetto during the WWII and today hosts synagogues, monuments, kosher restaurants, and kosher shops. We will visit the Rumbach Street Synagogue, we will see the Carl Lutz Memorial Park, the famous Gozsdu Courtyard and the center of the orthodox Jewish community, with an outside visit of the Kazinczy Street Synagogue. After our tour, we will invite you to have a cake in the kosher Fröhlich confectionary. Here you can try out for example the famous Jewish-Hungarian speciality, the Flódni, or the  Dobostorta (Drummercake), wich is a real hungaricum.  You have an other option, to have 10% discount in the kosher Carmel Restaurant.

Main stops:  

- Jewish Museum with local guiding

- Interior visit of the Dohány Street Synagogue

- Martyrs’ Cemetery - Holocaust Memorial Park

- Raul Wallenberg Park

- Tree of Life

- Heroes’ Temple – (outside visit)

- Jewish Centre – (outside visit)

- Interior visit of the statusquo Rumbach Street Synagogue

- Carl Lutz Memorial Park

- Gozsdu Passage

- Ortodox Jewish Quarter

- Kazinczy Street Synagogue – (outside visit)

- Cake in the glatt kosher Fröhlich confectionary or you can have 10 % discount in the glatt kosher Carmel Restaurant.

Price includes:

- entrance fee to the Jewish Museum  

- entrance fee to the Dohány Street Synagogue

- entrance fee to the Raul Wallenberg Memorial Park

- entrance fee to the Jewish Centre, where you can visit periodic exhibitions 

- entrance fee to the Rumbach Street Synagogue

- a cake in the glatt kosher Fröhlich pastry

- 10% off your order at the kosher Carmel Restaurant

Further important informations:

At the end of the tour your guide will give you your entrance ticket to the Jewish Centre. These tickets can be used just for one time, but are valid for one day. If you decided to go back next day to take some picture, to the souvenir shop or to visit the Jewish Centre, please keep your tickets and show them at the entrance.

Tour dates: from 1st May till 31th October

From Monday to Thursday at 14:00, on Fridays at 10:00.

Tour dates: from 2nd November till 30th November

On Fridays at 10:00 and on Sundays at 11:00.

Meeting point: in front of the entrance of the Dohány Street Synagogue, 15 minutes before the program starts. 

We don't have tours on jewish holidays and on hungarian national holidays, when the synagogues are closed for guiding.

Exceptions: we don't have tours on jewish holidays:
May: 15. 16.
Aug: 20.
Sept: 5. 6. 13. 19. 20. 26. 27.
Oct: 23.

Meeting time:

15 minutes before the program starts.