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Kutna Hora Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
Church of Bones
This is a top pick! ... windows were the best part for me, but of course the timberwork was beautiful too. The Ossuary, Church of bones in Sedlec, Kutna Hora was our last stop in this attractive little village. The church was commenced in the 13th century with just a small ...
Kutná Hora
This is a top pick! ... . Baidi had read about it somewhere online. Chinese travel net. Chinese are so organized. We get a train ticket to Kutn'' Hora and leave. Outside Prague everything becomes colourless. It seems like the angels used a grey pallette when they painted the ...
Out of the city
... breath of fresh air after being in the streets of Prague, which are crawling with tourists. I saw the oldest Cathedral in the Czech Republic, a chrurch decorated with the bones of an estimated 40,000 skeletons, and a lot of other neat little things on the ...
Creepy Bone Crypt
We went on a daytrip to a ossuary about 1 hour outside of Phana (Prague). An ossuary is a bone crypt. This one is one of the biggest in Europe, 40,000 skeletons stacked in ornate patterns. 4 large pyramids, a chandelier and strings of ...
Prague
Praha was beautiful. We had tons of free time in Prague and it was great. I do have to say that on the first day I got separated from my tour and was left wandering around Prague on my own. I know, good job...chalk one up to me but it was actually a ...
Czech- Points
... to read more Czech than hello, goodbye, and thank-you, we could have found an easier way. Once in Kutna Hora, we checked out the bizarre attractions whose guidebook descriptions lured us here, including an alchemy museum staffed by an ...
Bone Chapel & Silver Mines
... town about an hour and a half outside of Prague that is known for something all over the world. The Bone Chapel in Kutna Hora is a modestly sized church that is partially constructed and decorated with human bones. There is believed to be over 40,000 ...
Back to anatomy class
Decided to do a sidetrip to Kutna Hora and was greatly rewarded. Went to the Chapel of All Saints first and the gothic St. Barbara's Cathedral next. The Ossuary ws Built in 1870, the cemetary behind the church was popular. But when the plague hit, ...
Lots of Bones, beautiul Churches... nice day
So I'm pretty proud I was able to get a few of my coworkers to go visit Kutna Hora today. We got together at the main train station in Prague around 9.30am, and took a train at 10am. It was only 100 Czech Krown round trip, about 5 euros. I had ...
Week 5. Of bones, manuscripts and Erasmus bunch
... . Last weekend: amazing! We went on Saturday with a Norwegian and an American friend con to a medieval town called Kutna Hora. Great. Very strange though: there is a small chapel with an ossuary, where everything (altars, chandeliers, staircase...) ...
Kutna Hora
We took a day trip to the city of Kutna Hora. This is a small town one hour east of Prague. Kutna Hora is know for two main things. The silver mines, were closed when we were there, and Ossuary Sedlec. The Ossuary Sedlec holds a graveyard chapel from ...
Bones and a chateau on my birthday
... pictures and I won't go near them. And yet I wanted to go see hundreds of thousands of bones in a church in the middle of Czech. I don't get me either. Anyway, the church was very cool, and creepy. Though the bones were not meant to be creepy but more ...
A day trip
David and I decided to escape the city for the day and headed to the small town of Kutna Hora to do some exploring. The first thing we saw was an ossuary inside a church. The decoration of the church was made up of 40,000 human skeletons. It was very ...
The Bone Church
From Prague we made a day trip to nearby Kutna Hora to see the Sedlec Ossuary (aka: bone church). It was somewhat disturbing but also very cool to be standing in the small church filled with approximately 40,000-70,000 human bones. Guess there's a first ...
Bluegrass-Bands n' Bones
... as I gathered, their's was a Bluegrass Band!! I understood this word, but everything else was Czech... I couldn't believe it, a bluegrass band in Kutna Hora!?! Next thing I knew, they were asking me to play with them down the street somewhere. I ...
Sunday at the Bone Church
... church in Kutna Hora. So, we hopped in the car and off we went. It was about an hour and fifteen minute drive to Kutna Hora. When we got to the town, we weren't sure where the church was, but after driving around for a while, we found ...
Czech out this City!
... is located next to the hotel Krakonos, above Marianske Lazne and you can admire exact copies of famous buildings from the Czech Republic. Geological Park This park is located in a forest above the city. The park features typical minerals which can be ...
Kutna Hora
Today I took a series of trains into Central Czech Republic about 3 hour ride to visit Kutna Hora. I was told a quick slip of the tongue leads to a very dirty Czech phrase; maybe Czech isn't all that different from English? Somehow I ...
A city once rich from silver
... hour of the capital? The town is hardly a secret these days, frankly. Blame mankind's fascination with the macabre: Kutn'' Hora is famous worldwide for its Cistercian chapel in the industrial outskirts, featuring an ossuary decorated entirely out of ...
Össciting Ossicles
Entry to follow (I AM kind of travelling here, you know?). Thanks for your patience. Check back ...
Bones
Today we visited Kutna Hora, home to surely one of the creepiest but fascinating sights you can find, the Selec Ossuary. Essentially it is a church built on a cemetery and decorated with the bones of 40,000 people. When we say decorated we mean ...
Shivery or Silvery
Today we visited one of the strangest places I have ever been. I am not quite sure I believe it myself but it was pretty interesting. We took a bus to a town outside Praha. We were in a small town that was quite lovely to wander ...
To The Chruch of the Bones
... hung out in the evening took some amazing night shots of this beatuiful city and prepared to make my move the next day. I was off to the little town of Český Krumlov in the Czech Republic and I had no idea what a week it would ...