Prague Old Town, New Town and Jewish Quarter Tour: 3-Hour Morning Walk

Included

The single inclusion is a professional licensed guide, in English, for 3 hours with the group capped at 20. That is the whole list. No synagogue admission, no cemetery entry, no transport, no food and no pickup are part of the deal.

If you want the interiors of the Maisel, Pinkas, Spanish and Old-New synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery, book the Jewish Quarter Tour with Tickets instead, which builds five admissions into the price.

What You May Pay on the Day

The listing states no mandatory extras, so nothing beyond the tour price is required. Bring money for coffee or lunch, since food and drinks are excluded, and cash or a tip for the guide if you want to leave one. If the walk sparks interest in going inside Josefov's sites afterwards, the Jewish Museum sells one ticket covering the open synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery, and children up to 6 enter free.

The museum puts a complete visit at roughly 2-3 hours, so you could return in the afternoon. The self-guided Jewish Quarter Ticket is another way to do it.

Meeting at Wenceslas Square

You meet at the top of Wenceslas Square, in front of the statue of St. Wenceslas, in the morning. The guide holds a lime green umbrella. There is no hotel pickup, so plan your own route.

The listing notes that public transport options are available nearby.

The Walk Through Three Districts

From Wenceslas Square the walk covers the New Town, the Old Town and the Jewish Quarter. The listing names no individual stops and gives no per-site timings, only the total of 3 hours on foot for the whole route. The guide leads the commentary along the route.

Josefov and the Finish

The Jewish Quarter is part of the route, and no admission is included for the synagogues or the Old Jewish Cemetery. The listing states no return point or end time. Staroměstská, on Metro Line A and tram lines 17 and 18, is a 3-minute walk from the museum area, which makes it easy to leave from or to return to later with an entry ticket.

Anyone Who Wants to Go Inside

No admission to any site is included. If you want more depth in Josefov, you will need to return with a ticket or book a different tour. The Jewish Quarter Tour with Tickets includes admission to four synagogues and the cemetery for $74 per person over 2.5 hours, and the Inside Jewish Prague Tour covers the Quarter in a group of up to 5 for $68.64. If you want Josefov only, the 2-Hour Jewish Quarter Tour runs 2 hours from the Old Town Hall through Old Town Square and the Jewish Town for $28.60.

Travellers Who Need Pickup or Very Small Groups

There is no hotel pickup or drop-off, so anyone with limited mobility around transport should note that you reach Wenceslas Square yourself, although the walking route itself is wheelchair accessible with all areas and surfaces accessible, and prams and strollers are fine. Groups are capped at 20. Travellers who want fewer people have options: the Small Group Jewish Quarter Walk caps at 8 for $21.74, and the private Jewish Quarter and Museum Tour costs $81 per person.

Rules to Know If You Return to Enter

This walk includes no admission, so the site rules matter only if you go inside later. The Jewish Museum sites close on Saturdays and Jewish holidays, bags over 30 litres are refused at the entrance, exposed arms, shoulders or midriff, swimwear and bare feet are not allowed, and food, drinks and smoking are banned in all visitor areas. Head covering applies at the cemetery.

See the timing and rules sections among the Jewish Quarter Prague tours pages before planning a return visit.

Reaching Wenceslas Square

The meeting point is the St. Wenceslas statue at the top of Wenceslas Square. The listing confirms public transport options are nearby. The guide holds a lime green umbrella.

Getting Home from the Finish

The listing states no return point. Staroměstská station is handy: Metro Line A plus tram lines 17 and 18, and buses 194 and 207 also stop there. It sits a 3-minute walk from the museum area, Old Town Square is 5 minutes on foot and Charles Bridge 10.

The museum advises leaving the car outside the centre, so plan on foot and by public transport.

What to Add Afterwards

Two sights pair well and neither is named on this walk. The Jerusalem Synagogue on Jeruzalémská 7 is open Sunday to Friday 10:00-17:00, closed Saturdays and Jewish holidays, and adults pay CZK 150 (CZK 135 online) or CZK 100 with a valid Jewish Town ticket, children under 15 or students CZK 100 and under 6 free. The Franz Kafka Monument by Jaroslav Róna, bronze and 375 cm tall, stands at Dušní and Vězeňská between the Spanish Synagogue and the Church of the Holy Spirit, and the self-guided route ideas and timing notes help you fit it in.

Buildings and Their Years

The stops on this 3-hour walk carry long timelines. Jews are first recorded at Prague markets in 965 CE, and the first pogrom here came in 1096. The Jewish Town Hall at Maiselova 250/18 completed in the 16th century and later reworked in 1689 and 1754, with a Rococo facade added in the 18th century. The High Synagogue on Červená Street went up in 1568, paid for by Mordechai Maisel and built by Pankratius Roder. It is called High because it sits on the first floor of the Town Hall. In the early 1700s Jews made up about a quarter of Prague's population.

The Maisel Synagogue at Maiselova 10 opened on Simchat Torah in 1592. Its original form was a three-nave Renaissance temple on 20 pillars. The Klausen Synagogue at U Starého hřbitova 3a is the only early Baroque building left in the former ghetto, and it stands on the site of three 16th-century buildings that included a yeshiva founded by Rabbi Loew.

The Golem and the Kafka Statue

The legend your guide may tell near the Old-New Synagogue has Rabbi Loew making a clay golem to defend the ghetto during Rudolf II's reign. The creature is animated by a shem, a slip with God's name placed in its head or mouth. Remove the aleph from emet, meaning truth, and you get met, meaning dead, which switches the golem off. Historians generally treat the story as a German literary invention of the early 19th century.

Near the Spanish Synagogue, at the corner of Dušní and Vězeňská, stands the Franz Kafka Monument by Jaroslav Róna from 2003. The bronze figure is 375 cm tall, weighs 800 kg and shows Kafka riding on the shoulders of a headless figure, drawn from Description of a Struggle of 1912.

Turning the Walk Into an Interior Visit

The $30.89 price covers a licensed guide only, and no admission is included. To add interiors later, one route is the self-guided Jewish Quarter Ticket at $51 per person, valid for 1 day, which covers four synagogues, the Old Jewish Cemetery and the Robert Guttmann Gallery. The museum itself puts a complete circuit at roughly 2-3 hours, and children up to 6 enter free.

For a guided option with entry built in, the Jewish Quarter Tour with Tickets costs $74 per person for 2.5 hours and lists the Maisel, Pinkas, Spanish and Old-New synagogues plus the cemetery. Compare the exterior-only walks below before you decide.

More options appear in the full comparison of Prague Jewish Quarter tours.|Exterior-only walk, 2 hours|$28.60 per person|

Prices come from the operator listings. Figures were .