Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
140Kč, combined with Ghetto Museum 210/170Kč; 8am-6pm Apr-Oct, to 4.30pm Nov-Mar)
The best way to see Terezín's Lesser Fortress is to take a
self-guided tour
through
the prison barracks, isolation cells, workshops and morgues, past execution grounds
and former mass graves. The Nazis' mocking concentration camp slogan,
Arbeit
Macht Frei
('Work Makes You Free'), hangs above the gate to the inner yard. It
would be hard to invent a more menacing location, and it is only while wandering
through the seemingly endless tunnels beneath the walls that you begin to fully appre-
ciate the vast dimensions of the fortress.
In front of the fortress is a
National Cemetery
, established in 1945 for the vic-
tims exhumed from the Nazis' mass graves.
EATING
CZZECCH
MEMORIAL CAFÉ & RESTAURANT €
( 416 783 082; náměstí Československé armády; meals 130-270Kč)
To be honest, there
aren't any restaurants in Terezín that are genuinely recommendable. This place in the
Hotel Memorial, serving hearty Czech meals and kosher wines on a sunny terrace, is
the best of a mediocre bunch.
