Free audio walk in Budapest
The Jewish Quarter of Erzsébetváros
- 12 stops
- Free
Starts at Madách Imre tér
About this walk
Three movements, three synagogues and a walled ghetto, in a quarter that is now nightlife district and memorial at once.
The stops
Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.
- 1Stop 1
Madách tér and the Orczy-ház
The gateway to a boulevard that never arrived, at the spot where Pest's Jewish quarter began.
- 2Stop 2
The Rumbach Synagogue
The building you'd walk straight past if nobody pointed it out, by an architect who never set foot here.
Read the story - 3Stop 3
The piece of ghetto wall on Király utca
The last wall of the ghetto, demolished, rebuilt brick by brick, and still disputed today.
Read the story - 4Stop 4
Gozsdu udvar
Six courtyards in a row, paid for from the estate of a Romanian lawyer.
Read the story - 5Stop 5
The Orthodox synagogue on Kazinczy utca
The two brothers who lost the competition, got the commission anyway, and then had to strip back their own facade.
Read the story - 6Stop 6
Szimpla kert
The city's first ruin pub, in a building that had already been written off.
Read the story - 7Stop 7
Klauzál tér
Four square metres of bronze set into the grass, exactly the space one prisoner in the ghetto was given.
Read the story - 8Stop 8
The monument to Carl Lutz
A gilded angel diving down out of the wall, for the man who gave sixty thousand people papers.
Read the story - 9Stop 9
Síp utca 12, the address of the Jewish Council
The building where the Jewish Council had its seat, and where two bricks in the chimney still hold a date from 1944.
Read the story - 10Stop 10
The birthplace of Theodor Herzl
This is where the house once stood in which the founder of Zionism was born, in a city that rejected his idea.
Read the story - 11Stop 11
The Dohány Street Synagogue
The largest synagogue in Europe, built to be seen, with an organ that Liszt once played.
Read the story - 12Stop 12
The Emanuel Tree and the graves in the garden
The only synagogue garden in the world with graves in it, and a steel weeping willow where every leaf carries a name.
Read the story
Ready when you are
Walk The Jewish Quarter of Erzsébetváros with ROODS.
12 stops through Budapest. Open ROODS in your browser, walk to the first pin and the story plays.
- Stories on a map, with narrated audio
- Walk at your own pace, stop where you like
- Runs in your browser. An app is optional.
