... Flick through each one until you reach Kutna Hora, and chances are, each one will highlight the ossuary as the main reason to visit this picturesque town.
The ossuary. You will feel a sense of foreboding as you descend the stone steps into the crypt, passing beneath decorations made out ... Read review
incl. Breakfast - HRS Rating: 8,05/10 - One of the oldiest patrician buildings of Kutna ... more
Hora, today Opat hotel offers 17 rooms and Appartments with 56 beds The location in the centre of the town provides a perfect comfort from the point of view availability of services and monuments.The historical town centre ranks among European architectural jewels
The Hotel Opat in one of the oldest patrician buildings in Kutna Hora, provides luxurious ... more
and quiet accommodation in charmingly styled rooms including free wired internet access.The hotel's Mincovna restaurant has 50 seats, a summer terrace and a lounge for 12 guests and offers tasty Czech and international cuisine. Start your day with a complimentary buffet breakfast before you set out to explore this UNESCO-protected city with its 2 cathedrals or to successfully do business.Make use of the Hotel Opat's 1-day package for honeymooners or of the 2-day package including a guided tour of Kutna Hora and its surroundings!
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The family-run Hotel Kréta is situated in a calm part of Kutná Hora, a 7-minute walk from ... more
the main square, and offers you nice views of a park and of the sights of the city. Part of the Kreta hotel is also a cosy restaurant with both traditional Czech and international cuisine. It is divided into several small lounges including one for smokers, and can also accommodate all kinds of celebrations and company parties. Wireless internet is available in the entire hotel free of charge.
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The U Vlasskeho Dvora hotel in the UNESCO-protected historical centre of Kutna Hora offers ... more
you spacious rooms with free wireless internet access and charming city views.The hotel is situated in a calm and quiet area of picturesque winding lanes with souvenir shops, cosy cafés and garden restaurants. Yet the hotel boasts its own charming restaurant with a terrace, offering tasty Czech cuisine. Prague is only 60 km away, so day trips to the Czech capital are an option as well when at the U Vlasskeho Dvora hotel staying in Kutna Hora.
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Advantages: Picturesque, laid-back... Disadvantages: Not much night life!
...each one until you reach Kutna Hora, and chances are, each one will highlight the ossuary as the main reason to visit this picturesque town.
The ossuary. You will feel a sense of foreboding as you descend the stone steps into the crypt, passing beneath decorations made out of human bones. This will not quite prepare you for what awaits you with in. Vast pyramids of skulls. A chandelier that reportedly contains every bone of the human ... ...more pleasant surroundings, such as Kutna Hora's gently sloping streets.
Far more laid back than the picture book charm of Prague, Kutna Hora nestles in a valley and provides an excellent refuge for tourists who just want to take it easy. There are many small cafes and bars to sit and enjoy a beer and snack in, and lots of unusual sights to take in. The highlight is St. Bara's cathedral, a bizarre looking edifice constructed with ... more
Pick ten guide books on the Czech Republic before your trip. Flick through each one until you reach Kutna Hora, and chances are, each one will highlight the ossuary as the main reason to visit this picturesque town.
The ossuary. You will feel a sense of foreboding as you descend the stone steps into the crypt, passing beneath decorations made out of human bones. This will not quite prepare you for what awaits you with in. Vast pyramids of skulls. A chandelier that reportedly contains every bone of the human body. A coat of arms constructed entirely of bones. The man responsible for all this has even signed his name - in bones - by the entrance.
The story has it that during the plague years, there wasn't enough room for all the bodies in the graveyard, so this ghoul decided to create a monument to human mortality. Grim, chilling, and thought-provoking...but you'll rather be walking around more pleasant surroundings, such as Kutna Hora's gently sloping streets.
Far more laid back than the picture book charm of Prague, Kutna Hora nestles in a valley and provides an excellent refuge for tourists who just want to take it easy. There are many small cafes and bars to sit and enjoy a beer and snack in, and lots of unusual sights to take in. The highlight is St. Bara's cathedral, a bizarre looking edifice constructed with manic gothic energy. It looks like a vast insect crouched on the edge of the village.
An ideal place to stay - cheaper and more mellow than Prague, but within easy striking distance of the capital. You can live like a king for a week on fifty quid.
Be warned though - in the summer, Czech Republic gets unbearably hot. Landlocked, it has no sea breezes to relieve the temperature, so it will feel hotter than anywhere you've been for your summer holidays - be it Greece, Florida or Turkey.
Advantages: Different, cheap, easy to get to by car Disadvantages: A somewhat chilling experience
...in the small town of Kutna Hora, easily accessible about 60km east of Prague. Kutna Hora was once a royal town and home the royal mint in the 14th century (due to the German-dominated silver mines in the surrounding districts), and today the town itself is still well-preserved with some beautiful buildings around the main square, but there isn't really very much in the way of amenities - a couple of tourist shops and a few bars, and that's about ... ...you park the car in Kutna Hora and decide to walk it). The local tourist board has placed signposts pretty much all the way along the road to keep you on the right track, which is no bad thing. The walk takes you past one old church, which is locked, and then gives fabulous views of some cracking Soviet-period concrete architecture which can be a bit depressing, but the ossuary (bone chapel) is well worth the walk out of town. There is a small entrance ...
JVL 18.08.2000 (08.06.2001)
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Advantages: Nice town Disadvantages: Not many shops or night life
...UNESCO World Heritage Site of Kutna Hora. We visited the Sedlec Ossuary or the Bone Church. It is really not the place for the faint-hearted as inside you can see the most usual way to arrange/decorate human bones!! Henry, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Sedlec, was sent to the Holy Land by King Otakar II of Bohemia in 1278. When he returned, he brought with him a small amount of earth from the Holy Land and sprinkled it over the abbey cemetery. ... ...a desirable burial site throughout Central Europe. So many people were buried there that the whole place needed to be extended and the bones had to be put in organized fashion. In 1870, a woodcraver was employed by the Schwarzenberg family to put the bone heaps into order-what a daunting job!!!! Four enormous bell-shaped mounds occupy the corners of the chapel. An enormous chandelier of bones, which contains at least one of every bone in the human ...
medgenie 17.05.2009
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