Just after breakfast this morning, I walked along the riverfront of Prague, from near our hotel to the National Theater and back.
Papa and I met Noah and Marketa, our guide, at 9:30. We took an Uber to the Jewish Quarter for our tour, and visited four synagogues plus the Old Jewish Cemetery, the largest in Europe, dating back to the 1400’s. Our first stop was at the Pinkas Synagogue. Its interior walls are covered with the names of 80,000 Czech Jewish victims of the Holocast. We then walked through the Old Jewish Cemetery, with a few thousand headstones, with the oldest dating to 1439.
We visted the Old New Synagogue, the oldest in Prague and Europe, founded in 1270.
We also visited the Spanish Synagogue, built in 1868 in Moorish Revival style, on the site of the oldest synagogue in Prague. There is a statue of Franz Kafka just outside the synagogue. He attended the synagogue and went on to become the most famous Czech author.
