Terezin Fortress and Concentration Camp Tour from Prague

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10 hours (approximately)
Offered in: English

Get to know both sides of Terezin’s story during this 10-hour day trip.  Meet your guide and small-group at a central location.  Learn about one of the most sophisticated baroque fortresses of Europe, later used by Nazis as a Jewish Ghetto and Gestapo prison.

What's Included

Professional guide
Visit to Crematorium, Columbarium, Ghetto and Small Fortress
Excursion of the fortifications
Lunch (own expense)
Hotel pickup and drop-off

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point
Statue of Saint Wenceslas

Tour departs from the top of Wenceslas Square. Your guide will be standing in front of statue of St. Wenceslas holding a lime green umbrella.

End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Duration: 10 hours (approximately)
  • 1
    Mala Pevnost (Small Fortress)

    You will get a tour of Terezín's Small Fortress, which used to be a gestapo prison during WWII. Your guide will explain you when and why the fortress was built and how Nazi regime used it to prosecute political prisoners. You'll see the conditions people lived in and see original video footage from the WWII depicting "ideal" life of people in Terezín.

    1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 2
    Terezin Memorial

    Before entering Small Fortress you'll see Terezin Memorial, located on the ground of former mass grave.

    10 minutes • Admission ticket included
  • 3

    Explore with your guide history of Terezín's big fortress, which used to be a Jewish Ghetto in WWII. You'll walk through its streets, see what's left from the time of ghetto, visit a crematorium located just outside its walls and last you'll explore a part most people miss - its's unique baroque fortification system, which at the time of its completion was the best in Europe. You'll get a chance to explore tunnels inside its walls and learn how the fortification system worked.

    5 hours • Admission ticket free

Additional info

  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Not recommended for child aged 12 and under
  • Minimum age is 5 years
Supplied by Explore Prague

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