Small Group Jewish Quarter Walking Tour Prague: Livingprague

Included

The inclusions list has three lines: native English by a British expat guide, a Jewish Quarter walking tour, and an Old Town walking tour. That is the whole list. There is no admission, no transport and no food.

The exclusions list on the listing is empty, which means the operator states no mandatory extras. The notes tell you to bring a compact umbrella and a bottle of water.

What You May Spend on the Day

Because no admission is included, any interiors you want are your own cost. The practical fix is to combine the walk with the self-guided Jewish Quarter Ticket, which is valid for 1 day and covers the four synagogues, the Old Jewish Cemetery and the Robert Guttmann Gallery with a 20-minute introduction. Lunch and drinks are not part of the price either.

There is no hotel pickup, so budget for public transport or your own legs to reach Old Town Square.

Line by Line

The table below sets each inclusion and cost line against what it actually buys, using the listing's own inclusions and the operator's notes.

Meeting at the Kinsky Palace

You find Jason on Old Town Square at number 12. The building is a large light orange, highly decorative palace with a stone balcony and two entry archways underneath. As you face the building, he waits beside the entry on your right.

His photo and a picture of the spot are on the photos tab of his Tripadvisor listing under Livingprague, and you can call him if you cannot find it. There is no clock-time departure stated, so check your booking for the start time.

The Old Town Leg

The listing includes an Old Town walking tour at an easy pace, with entertaining and interesting content. No per-site timings are stated, so the split between the two quarters is up to the guide on the day.

Into Josefov

The walk also includes a Jewish Quarter walking tour. The listing does not say whether any site is entered, and the price includes no admission, so plan on paying separately for any interior. Public transport is nearby if you want to head straight on afterwards.

The Finish

No return point or return time is stated. With a 2.5-hour route on foot through two adjacent quarters, plan your onward trip on your own. The museum puts Old Town Square 5 minutes on foot from the Jewish Town.

Anyone Who Wants to Go Inside

This is the deal breaker. The museum sites sit inside the Jewish Museum's ticket area, and this tour includes no admission. If seeing the Pinkas Synagogue memorial or the more than 12,000 tombstones of the cemetery matters to you, book the Jewish Quarter Tour with Tickets instead, which builds the admissions in.

Mobility, Ages and Access

The tour suits all fitness levels, infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller, and service animals are allowed. Children from 1 to 15, adults 16 to 69 and seniors 70 to 120 are priced in separate bands. No wheelchair access is stated, so if you need a guaranteed accessible route, the 2-Hour Jewish Quarter Tour is listed as wheelchair accessible.

Group Size and Closures

Here is an honest wrinkle: the URL says a maximum of 6 people while the description says 8, so treat 8 as the safe assumption. If you want fewer people still, the private Private Jewish Quarter Tour is an option at a far higher price. And remember that the museum sites, including the interiors you may want to see after the walk, close on Saturdays and Jewish holidays, so plan any interior visit around that.

Reaching Old Town Square 12

Metro Line A to Staroměstská is the simplest route, and the station is a 3-minute walk from the Jewish Museum area. Trams 17 and 18 stop at Staroměstská, as do buses 194 and 207. The museum puts Old Town Square at 5 minutes on foot and Charles Bridge at 10, so if you are already in the centre you can walk.

The museum advises leaving the car outside the centre.

Add the Jerusalem Synagogue

The Jerusalem Synagogue on Jeruzalémská 7 is a separate site you can add. It is open Sunday to Friday 10:00-17:00 and closed Saturdays and Jewish holidays. Adults pay CZK 150 (CZK 135 online) and children under 15 or students CZK 100 (CZK 90 online).

With a valid Jewish Town ticket, adults pay CZK 100 and children and students CZK 80. It is one of only eight Stiassny-designed synagogues still used for services.

Other Easy Additions

The Franz Kafka Monument by Jaroslav Róna stands at Dušní and Vězeňská between the Spanish Synagogue and the Church of the Holy Spirit. It is bronze, 375 cm tall and shows Kafka on the shoulders of a headless figure. For the full picture of hours, tickets and closures, read the guides on the Prague Jewish Quarter tours homepage.

From the First Record to the Pogroms

A Jewish presence at Prague's markets is first recorded in 965 CE. The first pogrom came in 1096. In 1389, an estimated 3,000 Jews were murdered in a Passover pogrom in the same streets your guide walks you through. These dates give the 2.5-hour route a timeline, and the guide's stories land differently once you know how old the ground under you is.

By the early 1700s Jews made up about a quarter of Prague's population, all confined to the small ghetto that later became Josefov. That density explains why the cemetery graves were stacked in layers, many layers deep in places, because there was simply no room to expand.

Where the Walk Meets the Museum Circuit

This tour enters no sites, so a common follow-up is doing the interiors afterwards. Jewish Quarter Tour with Tickets bundles admission to four synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery into a 2.5-hour walk for $74 per person, which suits the same afternoon. If you would rather add interiors yourself, the museum puts a complete visit at roughly 2-3 hours on top of any guided walk, and the ticket desk sits at the Visitor Centre, Maiselova 15. For more options, compare the Jewish Quarter tours in Prague that this site reviews.

Town Hall, High Synagogue and Maisel

The Jewish Town Hall at Maiselova 250/18 completed in the 16th century, next to the Old-New Synagogue at the corner of Maiselova and Červená. The High Synagogue on Červená Street was built in 1568 by the Italian Pankratius Roder and paid for by Mordechai Maisel. It is called High because it sits on the first floor of the Town Hall. The Maisel Synagogue opened on Simchat Torah in 1592, and its original form was a three-nave Renaissance temple on 20 pillars.

The Old-New Synagogue itself dates from the last third of the 13th century and has been in active use for over 700 years, apart from 1942-1945. For a cheap exterior-only alternative, Old Town and Jewish Quarter Walking Tour covers similar ground in 1.5 hours for $22 per person.

The Kafka Statue at Dušní and Vězeňská

Between the Spanish Synagogue and the Church of the Holy Spirit stands the Franz Kafka Monument by Jaroslav Róna, dating from 2003. It is bronze, 375 cm tall and weighs 800 kg, and it shows Kafka on the shoulders of a headless figure from Description of a Struggle (1912). It sits a short detour from the 2.5-hour route, so ask your guide to include it.

Tickets If You Keep Going

Prices vary a lot between ways of seeing the interiors, so here they are side by side: Jewish Quarter Tour with Tickets at $74, Inside Jewish Prague Tour at $68.64, Jewish Quarter Ticket at $51 and Old Town and Jewish Quarter Walking Tour at $22. All figures come from the tour listings.