Apparently Kutna Hora (http://wikitravel.org/en/Kutna_Hora) was an old silver mining town in the middle ages. With all of their money they decided to build all of these ridiculously huge and beautiful cathedrals. While digging for one of them, they discovered a HUGE mass grave, and didn't know what to do with all of the bones. They hoarded them outside the church for a while until deciding to "decorate" one of the smaller churches with all of the bones.
It was the CRAZIEST thing I'd ever seen, ridiculous! The skulls and remains of 40,000 skeletons were made into chandeliers, coats of arms, ceiling decoration and candelabras. It doesn't seem real, not to mention the bones and skulls just stacked up all over the inside of the chapel.
SO worth the trip out there, it was literally one of the most insane things I've ever experienced. Didn't seem real. 40,000 skeletons is a lot.
From there we walked into town, a nice 3km walk in the hot sun, so I definitely "got my tan on" which means my shoulders are a little bit burnt, but thankfully not much else. The town was pretty cute, but the Cathedral at the end of the town was amazing, truly gorgeous. All of these amazing things just stuck in this little town in the middle of nowhere.
We spent most of the day walking around in this town, visiting the cathedrals and enjoying the views, as the town was nestled in some foothills. I may have even enjoyed this day trip more than downtown Prague itself, although it is hard to compare, they are both pretty amazing.
Would definitely recommend this day trip to anyone who has the time, I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was a completely different experience.
We came back and cooked dinner, planning to go out to the main square to watch the final soccer match tonight, but ended up meeting tons of cool people in the kitchen and talking until 11pm. Good times. That is one of my favorite parts about staying in the hostels, meeting all sorts of interesting people from all over the world. Didn't really feel like I missed out on the whole "going out" thing, since we managed to stay in and have a really good time. Maybe more partying in Vienna or Budapest!
Czech Republic is awesome!!! Kind of sad to leave, but totally excited for Vienna tomorrow.
2 comments:
That is so cool!!!! I have never been in Prague but after reading your blog I def. have to check it out. I hope you leave Croatia for us to explore, together!
Enjoy everything, try all the foods and cannot wait to see you.
Love you, Edina
Oh, u gotta post some pictures of this bone place when your whole trip is done.
and LOL at you getting your "tan on", I'll believe it when I see it.
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