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 body. A coat ... ...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. ...
Plissken 27.12.2000
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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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