Kutna Hora, Czech Republic Travel Blogs

Strange Sights
Jul 27, 2007 (8 photos)

... a fair few bars, pubs, and a casino, and there was nothing going on. Every place was dead quiet and almost empty. A little disappointed, we headed back to the hostel for a good nights sleep. All our best from the Czech Republic Dan and Gabrielle

Kutna Hora
Jul 29, 2007

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You got the silver
Jul 1, 2009 (19 photos)

... same thing (fair enough, sure). But this one was certainly worth the entrance fee. The other reason most people visit Kutná Hora is Sedlec Ossuary (also called Kostnice). The chapel houses tens of thousands of human bones (the remains of plague victims) ...

Hiking on the Czech-German boarder
Oct 2, 2009 (2 photos)

I got a little excited when we were planning this trip – driving for about 1.5hours from Prague and we are on the German border! From Adelaide I can get to Goolwa, or Mannum, in that time – not really the same… I think I was the only one ...

Kutna Hora
Jun 23, 2007 (8 photos)

      Just returned from a day trip to Kutna Hora, an little over a hour train ride out of Prague. This is a city that hundreds of years ago rivaled Prague as it was once rich from its silver mines. It is now another one of those ...

braking, bones
Sep 27, 2006 (15 photos)

... times, google has refused to shed any further light on this connection between them, so I can't explain what the quote means. Kutna Hora was, in medieval times, one of the most important Czech cities. Some rich veins of silver in the region led to the ...

Bone Church
Aug 5, 2005 (1 photos)

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Kutna Hora, St. Barbara's, and the Goodbye Dinner
Jun 17, 2004

We had breakfast, changed, and went to the main train station. We rode the train somewhere, switched lines, and arrived in Kutna Hora. We walked a long way, but we finally got to St. Barbara's Church. It had old frescoes. We also went to the bone church. ...

Silver and bones
Jul 2, 2009 (20 photos)

... travelers Kutna Hora is a day trip from Prague, but we decided to just stop here on our way to Prague instead. The Kutna Hora silver mine was quite a different experience from the salt mine in Poland.  Silver mining began sometime in the 13th century ...

macabe little place of obscurity...
Aug 20, 2009 (6 photos)

... ) you start to get images in your head of what to expect...   There is a stunning cathedral & jesuit colledge in Kutna Hora - the former, like most that I have ventured past/into - it's under construction... a rather cynical local told me - that ...

Day trip to Kutna Hora
Oct 10, 2006 (14 photos)

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zoologika zahrada v praze
Apr 7, 2008 (5 photos)

last easter, i had friends from leicester, u.k came to spend their easter holiday in beautiful and classical city of prague. they were very excited to see the whole prague themselves. the first place they are going were the must go in prague which were ...

Kutna Hora
Jan 15, 2005

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The bones of the dead
Nov 9, 2007 (4 photos)

An hour outside of Prague is a place like no other, where the bones of the dead rest in peace or in midair, arranged in pyramids or in garlands around the church. The Sedlec Ossuary does not look like much from the outside. A small church, and charming, ...

Kutna Hora
May 16, 2006

... employed a local woodworker to decorate the church and said, "we not to interested in buying the wood, so do you reakon you can usae these bones?" ....so the bones were used and the church was decorated. Czech out the photos (pardon the pun)....

Kutna Hora and Sedlec Ossuary
Apr 24, 2009 (83 photos)

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Prague
Jun 16, 2007

... maybe not for the light hearted but this trip wasn't for those people anyway,  is to make a day trip to the small city of Kutna Hora.  Don't remember what the made there, but there was a special smell to the place. Then you go to a chuch and let ...

Kutna Hora
Jun 16, 2007 (4 photos)

... ; Quaint and nice, but nothing overly special (I'd encourage tourists to venture into Moravia or Western Bohemia instead of visiting Kutna Hora itself).  The Church of St. Barbara looked magnificent from the outside, but we could not go in because a ...

Terazin
Jun 7, 2008 (15 photos)

Saturday 7th June   I will cheat from my guide for the information.  Today on the bus again, for a tour to Terezin Concentration Camp, this place was built as fortress in the 18th century.  Built in 1780 and takes up 398 hectares ...

Day Trip No 2
Feb 5, 2008 (17 photos)

Having said goodbuy to our two friends at breakfast, we were ready to take off for Kutna Hora. We chose to go there by train, as apparently the Sedlec Ossuary which we wanted to see was very close to the train station. We went by train but this time, the ...

praha metro
Apr 13, 2008 (1 photos)

... energy!!! hihihihihi..why should i waste my 3 months transport fee by not using the facilities and transports. what a waste of Czech koruna..hahahaha now, i seldom used metro because i lived nearer to my uni. but, prague metro are great. however, you ...

I love Cezky Krumlov
May 23, 2008 (15 photos)

I stopped over at Czescy Krumlov without really knowing anything about it. I was going to change my intinerary to skip it but boy am I glad I didn't. CK is the most picturesque beautiful village I have been to. It is a UNESCO world heritage listed site ...

kutna hora weird bone trip
Nov 1, 2005 (4 photos)

welll....i decided one morning to move out from the crowded prague...at least for a few hours...so i took the train to kutna hora...for about 1 hour away...i spent time with an english couple and a guy from new zeeland that happened to be in the same place ...

Wroclaw (Poland) to Kutna Hora (Czech Republic)
Jun 27, 2009 (28 photos)

27th June Wroclaw (Poland) to Kutna Hora (Czech Republic) Raining in Wroclaw clearing to cloudy skies in Kutna Hora  25 degrees We left rainy Wroclaw and drove into the Czech Republic as the rain cleared.  The countryside is lovely, with some ...

tranquil hradec kralove
Apr 7, 2008 (5 photos)

... journey took about 1 hour and 45 minutes. not really tiring because i could enjoy the beautiful scenary. marvellous!!!! czech peoples said: vybourne(excellant)... actually, i was there because my friends had organised a house warming party because they ...

Skeleton Chandelier Anyone?
Oct 23, 2009

... start at 11. I am starving with my need for breakfast. We opt for sausage on the run to the train station for our day trip to Kutna Hora. It is excellent with a choice of 5 types. Kutna Hora is a Unesco town, 1 hour by train from Prague. A nice day trip. ...

A side trip to Kutna Hora (Czech Rep.)
Nov 9, 2008 (17 photos)

After a few Days in Krakow Danny and i decided to catch an over night train to a place called Kutna Hora about 7 hours away in the Czech republic. It is about 65km from Prague and the home of a church decorated with the bones of 40 000 dead people. ...

German?
May 22, 2006 (2 photos)

... However before we headed back to Prague we went into a small bookshop, I was looking for a book about the history of the Czech republic- and it was here that another Tom and Briggzy quote was born, it went a little like this; Me (to shop girl)- ...

The Bone Church... dun dun dun...
Jun 25, 2008

Today we took a day trip to Kutna Hora. The train is a bit confusing when you dont speak Czech. Luckily, it is a popular tourist attraction and we found another group of people going out there who did know what they were doing. The church is made of ...