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Jewish cultural heritage

Budapest

Budapest

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Overview

Lodge trip Budapest 2005

Our travel group

Our travel group

Buda Castle

Fischer Bastion

Parliament

Opera house

Heroes' Square

Wallenberg Memorial

Road sign on the banks of the Danube

Wallenberg monument in the northern part of the city

Memorial to the 30,000 deceased ghetto inmates next to the Dohány Synagogue

A metal weeping willow, each leaf bearing a name

Medieval synagogue at the castle

Medieval synagogue at the castle

Bronze shoes

Remembering the shootings on the banks of the Danube

Memorial plaque commemorating Jewish men forced into labour

Monument north of Margaret Island (Pester side)

Shootings took place here too.

Dohány Synagoge

Visit and guided tour of the Dohány Synagogue, the largest synagogue in Europe

Dohány Synagoge

Visit and guided tour of the Dohány Synagogue, the largest synagogue in Europe

Commemorative plaque at Herzl's birthplace

Around the corner from the Dohány Synagogue

Visit to the small Orthodox Kazinczy Synagogue

Chuppah (wedding canopy) at the Kazinczy Synagogue

Highlights with a Jewish background

Guided tour of the Jewish quarter with rabbinical seminary,
Restaurants and shops,
Jewish Museum,
Kabbalat Shabbat with the Budapest B'nai B'rith Lodge at the Spinoza restaurant.

Other sights

Ruszwurm coffee house in the castle,
Wörösmarthy confectionery (formerly Gerbaud),
Strolling along the magnificent Váci Utca boulevard with its luxury shops,
Feasting and shopping in the food hall in the centre,
Dinner in the Gypsy Cellar,
Visit to the ‘House of Terror’ (evidence of communism).

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