We took the train out of the city for a day and went to Kutna Hora. We had read about negotiating your way around Czech train stations but we arrived in plenty of time worked out the train timetable and platform and were on our way. We were going to Kutna Hora just to seen the famous bone church or ossuary that is attached to the small Roman Catholic Church of church of all saints. This was the second ossuary we had seen having visited a small chapel in Austria that was just skulls of the deceased. We were in awe at the skeletons of between 40 -70 thousand people who are displayed here. It was actually very beautiful and displayed as great artistic and religious symbolism especially the chandelier of bones in the centre of the chapel. A blind monk in 1511 was largely responsible for storing the bones that had been exhumed due to limited space in the graveyard and the building of a new chapel. An amazing place to visit.....
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