One of the narrowest passing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTicket price: 130 CZK. Student Price: 80 CZK<\/p>\n
Sedlec Ossuary<\/h2>\n
In Sedlec, 2km from Kutn\u00e1 Hora, you can visit a chapel which has decorations made with human bones<\/strong>! The story is this one\u2026<\/p>\nEverything starts<\/strong> in Sedlec, when a Cistercian monastery was built in 1142<\/strong>. The cemetery became famous all over central Europe when an abbot came back from mission, bringing with him holy earth from Golgotha hill, and spreading it on the cemetery. It became a famous place to request a burial, but the site has welcomed 30\u00a0000 corpse. In 1400<\/strong>, a Gothic chapel with an ossuary was built in the middle of the cemetery. 20 years after<\/strong>, Hussites burnt and plundered the chapel and the huge cathedral. But the cemetery wasn\u2019t abandoned, quite the opposite, because fighters of Hussite war were also buried. While its surface area is decreasing, with other building, the question about storage becomes the most important. In 1511<\/strong> a monk started to put bones and skulls together in pyramids. 2 centuries later<\/strong>, Jan Bla\u017eej Santini-Aichl decides to make artistic works with it. He made other pyramids, ceiling lights and ornament. This tasks were completed by a crafts person later.<\/p>\nThe Sedlec ossuary is surprising but the strangest thing is that visitors, in general, feel good in front of this big quantity of human bones.<\/p>\n
My impressions<\/h2>\n
The visit of this town is easily doable in a day and it is very pleasant. Some streets are still medieval, and that is a s significant part of its appeal. For me, the silver mine is a very nice place to go, to live like miners of several decades ago. However, for claustrophobic people, I recommend against doing it. The ossuary as for it is very strange but you can make the visit in 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
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