Private Tour
Budapest Jewish Heritage: Synagogues, Shoes, Secrets & Flódni
Overview
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2 hours 45 minutes
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Budapest Jewish Heritage: Synagogues, Shoes, Secrets & Flódni — Private Walking Tour (2.5 hours)
Take a personalized walking tour with a historian guide to uncover Budapest’s rich Jewish heritage. Explore the historic Jewish Quarter and key memorials while tracing the community’s 19th-century integration, the rise of 20th-century antisemitism, and the devastation of the Holocaust. Learn about everyday customs, life in the ghetto after the 1944–45 German occupation, and why many survivors regarded the Red Army’s 1945 arrival as liberation. Along the way, discover landmark synagogues, hidden courtyards and stories behind the “Shoes on the Danube,” and see how Jewish contributions still shape the city’s architecture, culture and food today.
Optional treat: we’ll stop for a flódni tasting (own expense) — flódni is a classic Hungarian-Jewish layered pastry with poppy seed, walnut, apple, and plum jam between thin pastry sheets (contains nuts and gluten).
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
The tour is conducted by a genuine Jewish guide.
We’ll end the walk with an authentic Jewish dessert – how about a heavenly flódni?
Hotel pickup
Historian guide
Entrance tickets
Public transportation ticket
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
What To Expect
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From Herzl Square and the Great Synagogue we begin the guided walk in the Jewish Quarter, including major landmarks of the city’s World War II ghetto of 1944.
Great / Central Synagogue (Nagy Zsinagoga)
Stop at the Dohány Street Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue is a historical building in Erzsébetváros, the 7th district of Budapest, Hungary. It is the largest synagogue in Europe, seating 3,000 people and is a centre of Neolog Judaism. You will discover not only why this synagogue is unique architecturally, but also find out about the fate of Hungarian Jewry at the time of the Second World War, as well as learning how many internationally famous personages were Hungarian Jews.
Options
Without synagogue visit
Shoes by the Danube Memorial
Duration: 2 hours
Walking tour
With synagogue visit ✅
Duration: 2 hours 45 minutes
Flódni: Snacks
We’ll end the walk with an authentic Jewish dessert – how about a heavenly flódni?
Walking tour
Synagogue entrance: The booking fee also includes the entrance ticket to the Great Synagogue
Reviews
46 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
History in review
Hope M,
Oct 21, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00This is a wonderful experience. Learned so much and I feel the connection as a Jewish person that is part Hungarian .
Wonderful Jewish history lesson
NELDA E,
Oct 17, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00We visited a house Synagogue and shared a snack in the kitchen. So interesting to see a small poorer Synagogue. Gabriella was warm and fascinating.
Gabriella was outstanding.
James K,
Oct 9, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Gabriella catered our tour to our level. The tour pace was perfect. The information she presented far exceeded our expectations. Her vast knowledge of Judaism and the Jewish people was outstanding.
Excellent tour
223KarenH223,
Oct 1, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Nora was great! We learned a lot not just about the Jewish Quarter, but also life in Hungary. We also separately got basic tickets to have an inside tour of the Dohány Synagogue, which was definitely worth it!
The tour was wonderful...
Debbie G,
Aug 11, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00The tour was wonderful and it hit many of the places we wanted to visit. Gabriella was a great guide and extremely knowledgeable.
Gabriella is the BEST!!!
Sharon W,
Jul 19, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Our guide, Gabriella L. was OUTSTANDING. She is so knowledgeable and helpful in every way. We have had many guides through our many years of travel, but none have compared to Gabriella.
Three synagogues and fascinating history of the Jewish experience.
M8849NBsusant,
Jun 24, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The synagogues were breathtaking, but Gabriella led us along the breadth and depth of Jewish life and into history.Gabriella’s value as a guide absolutely shines forth as a most exceptional educator, historian and inspiring, impactful leader. Our evaluation of her abilities goes significantly past any positive words people use to describe their guides!
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carterj83,
Jun 17, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We took the tour with Gabriella – it was incredible how knowledgeable she is about everything worth knowing regarding Hungarian Jewish history and culture. She also shared that she personally follows and observes Jewish traditions in her daily life. It was a fantastic tour, thank you so much!
Pieter Bruisma's Jewish Heritage Tour - the one to take!
OA B,
Jun 12, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Peter provided us an excellent understanding of the history of the Jewish community in Budapest. We felt that through his selected itinerary and insights we were able to gain so much more of an understanding of the culture, beyond just the synagogues. An in depth exploration at a comfortable pace and an interesting dialogue - so much better than a canned group tour monologue. Well worth the money.
The way it was personalized.
Eileen Z,
Jun 5, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00A personal look at how families lived between WWI and WW2. A history lesson not found in typical tours.
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