Is Old Synagogue & Jewish Museum worth it with kids?
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With kids, give Old Synagogue & Jewish Museum a miss.
The real draw is the story: this is one of the oldest surviving Sephardic synagogues in Europe, dating to the late 15th–16th century when Jews expelled from Spain found refuge in a Ragusa that valued their trade and contacts enough to tolerate them — a pragmatic, mercantile open-mindedness rare in its day. The upstairs prayer room still holds original ritual objects and the family that tended it for generations. The honest catch is it's genuinely small — about fifteen minutes — and easy to miss on its narrow lane; come for the history, not the scale.