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  • Avila. The are of the old Jewish quarter, the Juderia. This door  is what remains of a synagogue of<br />
mid-15th century made by don Simuel. This place of worshi, mentioned in documents between 1430 and 1460, was one of the centres of the Jewish faith located in the Jewish quarter of Santo Domingo.
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  • Toledo, the Old Jewish Juderia (Jewish quarter).
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  • The Old Juderia (Jewish quarter) near the cathedral.<br />
Indications in Hebrew language that indicate the routes of the Jewish quarter.
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  • Toledo, the Old Jewish Juderia (Jewish quarter).
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  • Toledo, the Old Jewish Juderia (Jewish quarter).
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  • Toledo, the Old Jewish Juderia (Jewish quarter).
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  • Toledo, the Old Jewish Juderia (Jewish quarter).
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  • Toledo, the Old Jewish Juderia (Jewish quarter).
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito, Jewish funerary stones. El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Segovia, Centro didactico de la Juderia. This interpretation centre and museum provides a fascinating history of the Jewish community in Segovia. It occupies the former 15th-century home of one of the community's most important members, Abraham Seneor.
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  • The Old Juderia (Jewish quarter) near the cathedral.
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  • The Old Juderia (Jewish quarter) near the cathedral.
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  • Segovia. The cathedral and the old city area that once was the Jewish quarter (Juderia).
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  • Segovia. The cathedral and the old city area that once was the Jewish quarter (Juderia).
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  • Salamanca, Calle Libreros near the cathedral and the university was once the Jewish Quarter (Juderia). On the back the church of La Clarecia.
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  • Segovia, Centro didactico de la Juderia. This interpretation centre and museum provides a fascinating history of the Jewish community in Segovia. It occupies the former 15th-century home of one of the community's most important members, Abraham Seneor.
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  • The Old Juderia (Jewish quarter) near the cathedral. City walls near the Puerta de San Andrés (Gate of Saint Andrew) is a city gate forming part of the city's medieval fortifications. <br />
The gateway has also been known as the Puerta de la Judería or the Puerta del Socorro. It is located in a strategic position overlooking the Río Clamores
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  • The Old Juderia (Jewish quarter) near the cathedral. The Puerta de San Andrés (Gate of Saint Andrew) is a city gate forming part of the city's medieval fortifications. <br />
The gateway has also been known as the Puerta de la Judería or the Puerta del Socorro. It is located in a strategic position overlooking the Río Clamores
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  • The Old Juderia (Jewish quarter) near the cathedral.
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  • The Old Juderia (Jewish quarter) near the cathedral.
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  • Segovia. The cathedral and the old city area that once was the Jewish quarter (Juderia).
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  • Segovia. The cathedral and the old city area that once was the Jewish quarter (Juderia).
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  • Segovia, Centro didactico de la Juderia. This interpretation centre and museum provides a fascinating history of the Jewish community in Segovia. It occupies the former 15th-century home of one of the community's most important members, Abraham Seneor.
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  • Avila. Basilica de San Vicente. This gothic stone<br />
where tradition says<br />
a Jewish master is buried<br />
which, after becoming christian, built in<br />
the 4th century the original church, the one that rises the current one.
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  • Segovia. Iglesia de Corpus Cristi (Corpus Christi church) occupies the site of Segovia's old main synagogue (Sinagoga Mayor). Dating to the 14th century, it was converted into a convent of the nuns of Order of Saint Clare. The building was almost completely destroyed in a fire in 1899 and has been reconstructed since.
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  • Avila. The old Juderia inside the medieval walls, around Santo Domingo and Vallespin streets.
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  • Segovia the roof of the Restaurant El Fogòn Sefardì inside the Old Juderia specialised in sefardite recipes.
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  • Segovia. Iglesia de Corpus Cristi (Corpus Christi church) occupies the site of Segovia's old main synagogue (Sinagoga Mayor). Dating to the 14th century, it was converted into a convent of the nuns of Order of Saint Clare. The building was almost completely destroyed in a fire in 1899 and has been reconstructed since.
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  • Segovia. Iglesia de Corpus Cristi (Corpus Christi church) occupies the site of Segovia's old main synagogue (Sinagoga Mayor). Dating to the 14th century, it was converted into a convent of the nuns of Order of Saint Clare. The building was almost completely destroyed in a fire in 1899 and has been reconstructed since.
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  • Avila, San Pedro church, one of the most significant temples of Castile and León. .It was at St. Peter's Atrium that the notorious trial took place of those Jews accused in the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia, an event which grabbed the attention of the kingdom at that time and which serves as a perfect illustration of the worsening of relations between Jews and Christians in the late 15th century.
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  • Avila. The old Juderia inside the medieval walls, around Santo Domingo and Vallespin streets.
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  • Avila. The Mosén Rubi Chapel was «originally built in 1462 as a major Synagogue» and when it had already been converted into a church, it was annexed to the hospital. The construction date  in 1462 and it may be the last synagogue built in Spain prior to the Expulsion.
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito, the Sephardi Museum, original decoration of the Synagogue. El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito, the wooden roof. El Transito  is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito, the wooden roof. El Transito  is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. The synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca (Synagogue of Saint Mary the White) is a museum and former synagogue. Erected in 1180, according to an inscription on a beam, it is disputably considered the oldest synagogue building in Europe still standing. It is now owned and preserved by the Catholic Church. The focal point of the synagogue is the scallop-shell-topped arch at the center of the building. This was the location of the Torah ark.
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  • Toledo. The synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca (Synagogue of Saint Mary the White) is a museum and former synagogue. Erected in 1180, according to an inscription on a beam, it is disputably considered the oldest synagogue building in Europe still standing. It is now owned and preserved by the Catholic Church.
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  • Toledo. The synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca (Synagogue of Saint Mary the White) is a museum and former synagogue. Erected in 1180, according to an inscription on a beam, it is disputably considered the oldest synagogue building in Europe still standing. It is now owned and preserved by the Catholic Church.
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  • Toledo. The synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca (Synagogue of Saint Mary the White) is a museum and former synagogue. Erected in 1180, according to an inscription on a beam, it is disputably considered the oldest synagogue building in Europe still standing. It is now owned and preserved by the Catholic Church.
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  • Segovia the roof of the Restaurant El Fogòn Sefardì inside the Old Juderia specialised in sefardite recipes.
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  • Avila, San Pedro church, one of the most significant temples of Castile and León. .It was at St. Peter's Atrium that the notorious trial took place of those Jews accused in the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia, an event which grabbed the attention of the kingdom at that time and which serves as a perfect illustration of the worsening of relations between Jews and Christians in the late 15th century.
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  • Avila. The Capilla de Nuestra Señora de Las Nieves (Chapel of our Lady of the Snows) where previously was the Ávila synagogue called Belforad. Popular tradition retained the name of the rabbi's house for the dwelling located on Las Nieves street (the current Synagogue Hostelry) and which was connected to the temple.
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito, gallery of the women. El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Toledo. The synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca (Synagogue of Saint Mary the White) is a museum and former synagogue. Erected in 1180, according to an inscription on a beam, it is disputably considered the oldest synagogue building in Europe still standing. It is now owned and preserved by the Catholic Church.
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  • Toledo. The synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca (Synagogue of Saint Mary the White) is a museum and former synagogue. Erected in 1180, according to an inscription on a beam, it is disputably considered the oldest synagogue building in Europe still standing. It is now owned and preserved by the Catholic Church.
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  • Toledo. Synagogue of El Transito is famous for its rich stucco decoration, which bears comparison with the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra palaces in Granada. The synagogue was founded by Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia, Treasurer to Peter of Castile, in about 1356. The founder was a member of a family who had served the Castilian kings for several generations and included kabbalists and Torah scholar
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  • Trebic.The Rear Synagogue, Jewish Museum with a reconstructed shop. The Jewish Quarter here is one of the best preserved and the largest in Europe. Thanks to its cultural and historical importance, the collection of houses in the former ghetto, together with the Jewish Cemetery and Basilica of St. Procopius, have been included in the UNESCO world and natural heritage list, the first independent Jewish monument to be honoured in this manner outside of the state of Israel.
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  • Trebic.The Rear Synagogue, Jewish Museum with the reconstructed Rabbi's house. The Jewish Quarter here is one of the best preserved and the largest in Europe. Thanks to its cultural and historical importance, the collection of houses in the former ghetto, together with the Jewish Cemetery and Basilica of St. Procopius, have been included in the UNESCO world and natural heritage list, the first independent Jewish monument to be honoured in this manner outside of the state of Israel.
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  • Trebic.The Rear Synagogue, Jewish Museum with the reconstructed Rabbi's house. The Jewish Quarter here is one of the best preserved and the largest in Europe. Thanks to its cultural and historical importance, the collection of houses in the former ghetto, together with the Jewish Cemetery and Basilica of St. Procopius, have been included in the UNESCO world and natural heritage list, the first independent Jewish monument to be honoured in this manner outside of the state of Israel.
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  • Trebic.The Rear Synagogue, Jewish Museum with old Torah's scrolls. The Jewish Quarter here is one of the best preserved and the largest in Europe. Thanks to its cultural and historical importance, the collection of houses in the former ghetto, together with the Jewish Cemetery and Basilica of St. Procopius, have been included in the UNESCO world and natural heritage list, the first independent Jewish monument to be honoured in this manner outside of the state of Israel.
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  • Trebic. The Jewish Quarter here is one of the best preserved and the largest in Europe. Thanks to its cultural and historical importance, the collection of houses in the former ghetto, together with the Jewish Cemetery and Basilica of St. Procopius, have been included in the UNESCO world and natural heritage list, the first independent Jewish monument to be honoured in this manner outside of the state of Israel.
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  • Trebic. The Jewish Quarter here is one of the best preserved and the largest in Europe. Thanks to its cultural and historical importance, the collection of houses in the former ghetto, together with the Jewish Cemetery and Basilica of St. Procopius, have been included in the UNESCO world and natural heritage list, the first independent Jewish monument to be honoured in this manner outside of the state of Israel.
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  • Trebic. The Jewish Quarter here is one of the best preserved and the largest in Europe. Thanks to its cultural and historical importance, the collection of houses in the former ghetto, together with the Jewish Cemetery and Basilica of St. Procopius, have been included in the UNESCO world and natural heritage list, the first independent Jewish monument to be honoured in this manner outside of the state of Israel.
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  • Trebic.The Rear Synagogue has many Renaissance elements and was built as late as 1669 or shortly before. The Jewish Quarter here is one of the best preserved and the largest in Europe. Thanks to its cultural and historical importance, the collection of houses in the former ghetto, together with the Jewish Cemetery and Basilica of St. Procopius, have been included in the UNESCO world and natural heritage list, the first independent Jewish monument to be honoured in this manner outside of the state of Israel.
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  • Trebic.The Rear Synagogue has many Renaissance elements and was built as late as 1669 or shortly before. The Jewish Quarter here is one of the best preserved and the largest in Europe. Thanks to its cultural and historical importance, the collection of houses in the former ghetto, together with the Jewish Cemetery and Basilica of St. Procopius, have been included in the UNESCO world and natural heritage list, the first independent Jewish monument to be honoured in this manner outside of the state of Israel.
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  • The Jewish Museum was founded in 1906 to preserve valuable artefacts from the Prague synagogues that had been demolished during the reconstruction of the Jewish Town at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1942 the Nazis established the Central Jewish Museum, to which were shipped artefacts from all the liquidated Jewish communities and synagogues of Bohemia and Moravia.
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  • Mikulov.Despite the extensive demolitions in the past a number of houses of the original Jewish inhabitants have survived from mid 16th century. Mikulov was a major spiritual centre of Jewishness and Jewish religion. The end of Jewishness in Mikulov came with World War II.
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  • Mikulov.Despite the extensive demolitions in the past a number of houses of the original Jewish inhabitants have survived from mid 16th century. Mikulov was a major spiritual centre of Jewishness and Jewish religion. The end of Jewishness in Mikulov came with World War II.
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  • The Old Jewish Cemetery was established in the first half of the 15th century. Along with the Old-New Synagogue, it is one of the most important hictoric sites in Prague´s Jewish Town. The oldest tombstone, which marks the grave of the poet and scholar Avigdor Karo, dates from the year 1439. Burials took place in the cemetery until 1787. Today it contains some 12,000 tombstones, al though the number of persons buried here is much greater.
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  • The Old Jewish Cemetery was established in the first half of the 15th century. Along with the Old-New Synagogue, it is one of the most important hictoric sites in Prague´s Jewish Town. The oldest tombstone, which marks the grave of the poet and scholar Avigdor Karo, dates from the year 1439. Burials took place in the cemetery until 1787. Today it contains some 12,000 tombstones, al though the number of persons buried here is much greater.
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  • The Old Jewish Cemetery was established in the first half of the 15th century. Along with the Old-New Synagogue, it is one of the most important hictoric sites in Prague´s Jewish Town. The oldest tombstone, which marks the grave of the poet and scholar Avigdor Karo, dates from the year 1439. Burials took place in the cemetery until 1787. Today it contains some 12,000 tombstones, al though the number of persons buried here is much greater.
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  • Mikulov, old Jewish Town. Zavodny Gallery, exposition of the Czech artist Ales Vesely born from a Jewish family.
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  • The Old Jewish Cemetery was established in the first half of the 15th century. Along with the Old-New Synagogue, it is one of the most important hictoric sites in Prague´s Jewish Town. The oldest tombstone, which marks the grave of the poet and scholar Avigdor Karo, dates from the year 1439. Burials took place in the cemetery until 1787. Today it contains some 12,000 tombstones, al though the number of persons buried here is much greater.
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  • The Old Jewish Cemetery was established in the first half of the 15th century. Along with the Old-New Synagogue, it is one of the most important hictoric sites in Prague´s Jewish Town. The oldest tombstone, which marks the grave of the poet and scholar Avigdor Karo, dates from the year 1439. Burials took place in the cemetery until 1787. Today it contains some 12,000 tombstones, al though the number of persons buried here is much greater.
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  • The Old-New Synagogue was built in early Gothic style around the middle of the 13th century.During the 16th century, when other synagogues were built in Prague, it became known as the “Old-New” Synagogue. On the right the bell with the Jewish watch of the old Jewish City Hall of Josefov.
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  • The Old Jewish Cemetery, tomb of the great religious scholar and teacher Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known as Rabbi Loew (d. 1609), who is associated with the legend of the Golem. The cemetery was established in the first half of the 15th century. Along with the Old-New Synagogue, it is one of the most important hictoric sites in Prague´s Jewish Town. The oldest tombstone, which marks the grave of the poet and scholar Avigdor Karo, dates from the year 1439. Burials took place in the cemetery until 1787. Today it contains some 12,000 tombstones, al though the number of persons buried here is much greater.
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  • Boskovice, the old houses of a wheat trader. The enclosed Jewish ghetto was created in the mid-18th century
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  • Mikulov. The large Jewish cemetery in Mikulov is one of the most significant in the country and the oldest survived tomb stone dates from 1605.The cemetery contains around 4,000 tombs. The most valuable section in the Rabbis Peak with tombs of Mikulov and Moravian regional rabbis.
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  • Mikulov. The large Jewish cemetery in Mikulov is one of the most significant in the country and the oldest survived tomb stone dates from 1605.The cemetery contains around 4,000 tombs. The most valuable section in the Rabbis Peak with tombs of Mikulov and Moravian regional rabbis.
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  • Mikulov. The large Jewish cemetery in Mikulov is one of the most significant in the country and the oldest survived tomb stone dates from 1605.The cemetery contains around 4,000 tombs. The most valuable section in the Rabbis Peak with tombs of Mikulov and Moravian regional rabbis.
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  • Josefov neighborough.The name of the Jewish living here before the nazism are remembered between the stones of the street.
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  • The Spanish Synagogue was built in 1868 on the site of the oldest Prague Jewish house of prayer ("the Old Shul"). It was designed in a Moorish style by Vojtěch Ignátz Ullmann. The synagogue has a regular square plan with a large dome surmounting the central space. On three sides there are galleries on metal structures, which fully open onto the nave. The remarkable interior decoration features a low stucco arabesque of stylized Islamic motifs which are also applied to the walls, doors and gallery balustrades.
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  • A old mikveh, the Jewish ritual bath, in the basement of a building utilised as wine cellar.
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  • Mikulov. The large Jewish cemetery in Mikulov is one of the most significant in the country and the oldest survived tomb stone dates from 1605.The cemetery contains around 4,000 tombs. The most valuable section in the Rabbis Peak with tombs of Mikulov and Moravian regional rabbis.
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  • The Small Fortress served as the largest Gestapo prison in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It was on the other side of the river from the ghetto and operated separately. The Jewish cemetery. Around 90,000 people went through it, and 2,600 died there. This former military fortress was founded in the late 18th century by the Habsburg Monarchy and named Theresienstadt after Empress Maria Theresa.
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  • The present building is the work of the Horowitz family. After the Second World War, the synagogue was turned into a Memorial to the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia murdered by the Nazis. On its walls are inscribed the names of the Jewish victims, their personal data, and the names of the communities to which they belonged.
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  • The present building is the work of the Horowitz family. After the Second World War, the synagogue was turned into a Memorial to the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia murdered by the Nazis. On its walls are inscribed the names of the Jewish victims, their personal data, and the names of the communities to which they belonged.
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  • The Spanish Synagogue was built in 1868 on the site of the oldest Prague Jewish house of prayer ("the Old Shul"). It was designed in a Moorish style by Vojtěch Ignátz Ullmann. The synagogue has a regular square plan with a large dome surmounting the central space. On three sides there are galleries on metal structures, which fully open onto the nave. The remarkable interior decoration features a low stucco arabesque of stylized Islamic motifs which are also applied to the walls, doors and gallery balustrades.
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  • The Spanish Synagogue was built in 1868 on the site of the oldest Prague Jewish house of prayer ("the Old Shul"). It was designed in a Moorish style by Vojtěch Ignátz Ullmann. The synagogue has a regular square plan with a large dome surmounting the central space. On three sides there are galleries on metal structures, which fully open onto the nave. The remarkable interior decoration features a low stucco arabesque of stylized Islamic motifs which are also applied to the walls, doors and gallery balustrades.
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  • The Spanish Synagogue was built in 1868 on the site of the oldest Prague Jewish house of prayer ("the Old Shul"). It was designed in a Moorish style by Vojtěch Ignátz Ullmann. The synagogue has a regular square plan with a large dome surmounting the central space. On three sides there are galleries on metal structures, which fully open onto the nave. The remarkable interior decoration features a low stucco arabesque of stylized Islamic motifs which are also applied to the walls, doors and gallery balustrades.
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  • Trebic. One of the largest and best preserved Jewish cemeteries in the Czech Republic. The oldest gravestone dates back to 1625,
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  • Trebic. One of the largest and best preserved Jewish cemeteries in the Czech Republic. The oldest gravestone dates back to 1625,
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  • The Spanish Synagogue was built in 1868 on the site of the oldest Prague Jewish house of prayer ("the Old Shul"). It was designed in a Moorish style by Vojtěch Ignátz Ullmann. The synagogue has a regular square plan with a large dome surmounting the central space. On three sides there are galleries on metal structures, which fully open onto the nave. The remarkable interior decoration features a low stucco arabesque of stylized Islamic motifs which are also applied to the walls, doors and gallery balustrades.
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  • The Spanish Synagogue was built in 1868 on the site of the oldest Prague Jewish house of prayer ("the Old Shul"). It was designed in a Moorish style by Vojtěch Ignátz Ullmann. The synagogue has a regular square plan with a large dome surmounting the central space. On three sides there are galleries on metal structures, which fully open onto the nave. The remarkable interior decoration features a low stucco arabesque of stylized Islamic motifs which are also applied to the walls, doors and gallery balustrades.
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  • Jewish Museum , the “Void,” which cuts through the Museum’s main building. The museum consists of two buildings. One is the old Kollegienhaus, the other is a new building specifically built for the museum, designed by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. The museum opened to the public in 2001.
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  • Jewish Museum , the "Void," which cuts through the Museum's main building. The museum consists of two buildings. One is the old Kollegienhaus, the other is a new building specifically built for the museum, designed by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. The museum opened to the public in 2001.
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  • Jewish Museum , the "Void," which cuts through the Museum's main building. The museum consists of two buildings. One is the old Kollegienhaus, the other is a new building specifically built for the museum, designed by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. The museum opened to the public in 2001.
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  • Jewish Museum , the "Void," which cuts through the Museum's main building. The museum consists of two buildings. One is the old Kollegienhaus, the other is a new building specifically built for the museum, designed by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. The museum opened to the public in 2001.
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  • Boskovice. The synagogue, built in 1698 in Baroque style, displays adaptations in empire and neo-gothic styles with paintings of Hebrew liturgical texts.
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  • The Old-New Synagogue was built in early Gothic style around the middle of the 13th century.During the 16th century, when other synagogues were built in Prague, it became known as the “Old-New” Synagogue.
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