Kazimierz, the south-east quarter of Cracow, was the historical center of Cracow’s Jewish religious and social life. Kazimierz was an autonomous town built by Casimir the Great, who had offered the Jews of Western Europe shelter from the persecution they were then suffering. It was incorporated into Cracow in the 18th c. In 1939 over 70,000 Jews lived here. Our tour of Kazimerz takes you to the most important places in this area. You will see the places that Steven Spielberg used for his Schinder’s List; it documented their annihilation by the Nazis. You will visit the monuments: the renaissance style Old Synagogue built in the XVc, was the oldest existing synagogue in Europe, the original Remuh Synagogue and Temple synagogues still exist as well as the old Jewish cemetery. Accompanied by our guide you will visit the most interesting places of this area and on at the end of this tour you will stop at Klezmer Hois for a drink.