
The town of Třebíč has had a significant population of Jews for several centuries. They co-existed with the local Christian population which produced a unique combination of religious structures which shows the harmonious co-existence of the Christians and the Jews. For this, the local basilica, the Jewish cemetery and finally the Jewish Quarter were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Honestly, I find it hard to be impressed with the structures I’m seeing and no doubt that my friends with me were also not very impressed. I think were all in a hurry to just get back to town have start eating and drinking.

From the Jewish Cemetery, we only needed to make our way down the hill and through the Jewish Quarter. At that point, I didn’t really care much about sightseeing. To our eyes, this was just another district in the town of Třebíč. We did pass by some Jewish structures but it was rather hard to identify them. None are probably more significant here than the synagogue which surprisingly is nowhere as impressive as a basilica. While I haven’t been to too many synagogues before, I don’t think they tend to be as flamboyant/impressive as the older Christian places of worship.
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