Private Tour: Terezin Half-Day Tour from Prague
Prague, Czech Republic
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Trip Type: Private Sightseeing Tours
Duration: 5 hours
Join this 5-hour private half-day tour to the town of Terezin, where you will visit the infamous concentration camp, Small Fortress, Ghetto Museum and Magdeburg Barracks. A comfortable Mercedes car and your private guide will be at your disposal during the whole tour.
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Join this 5-hour private half-day tour to the town of Terezin, where you will visit the infamous concentration camp, Small Fortress, Ghetto Museum and Magdeburg Barracks. A comfortable Mercedes car and your private guide will be at your disposal during the whole tour.
Meet your private driver and guide at your Prague hotel, from where your half-day trip starts. After an approximate 1-hour drive, you will reach the town Terezin.
Terezin was founded by Emperor Josef II in the 18th century and originally had been an ingenious system of the military fortresses. It was also used as political prison. During World War II Terezin was converted into a Jewish ghetto-land, a concentration camp for Jewish people form all over Europe, where more than 35,000 people lost their lives.
During the tour your guide will take you to Small Fortress, which served as the prison of the Prague Gestapo from 1940 to 1945. In 1994, a new permanent exhibition opened here, devoted to the history of the political prison. Furthermore you will visit Ghetto Museum, which is located in the building of the former Terezín School. The exhibitions have been arranged with the assistance of former prisoners of the Terezín Ghetto. At the end your tour your guide will take you to the former Magdeburg Barracks where you can find a replica of a prison dormitory from the Ghetto period.
Lunch is not included in the tour -- it is recommended have lunch in Prague. The end of the tour will be at your hotel or a place in central Prague that suits you.
Terezin was founded by Emperor Josef II in the 18th century and originally had been an ingenious system of the military fortresses. It was also used as political prison. During World War II Terezin was converted into a Jewish ghetto-land, a concentration camp for Jewish people form all over Europe, where more than 35,000 people lost their lives.
During the tour your guide will take you to Small Fortress, which served as the prison of the Prague Gestapo from 1940 to 1945. In 1994, a new permanent exhibition opened here, devoted to the history of the political prison. Furthermore you will visit Ghetto Museum, which is located in the building of the former Terezín School. The exhibitions have been arranged with the assistance of former prisoners of the Terezín Ghetto. At the end your tour your guide will take you to the former Magdeburg Barracks where you can find a replica of a prison dormitory from the Ghetto period.
Lunch is not included in the tour -- it is recommended have lunch in Prague. The end of the tour will be at your hotel or a place in central Prague that suits you.
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