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Kutná Hora
Short by-pass on the way from Prague to Slovakia.
June 2014;
Total 56 photos;
Where is it?
Ossuary
The ossuary contains bones of about 40000 people. It resides in the lower part of the All Saints Church.
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Signature of the last person who arranged the bones
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Chandelier made of human bones - they say it contains at least one of every kind of human bones
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The Schwarzenberg Coat-of-Arms
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This blurry picture catches the mood of the place
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Sedlec Cathedral
Church of the Assumption of Our Lady and Saint John the Baptist
Gothic cathedral burned down by Hussites, restored in baroque style after almost three centuries of resting in ruins.
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Fried cheese and beer in a royal tavern
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Walk over the vaults of the side nave
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Detail of the brick vault
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Main nave of the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady
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St. Barbara's Church
They started to build it to challenge Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral. It was never fully finished as originally intended.
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Mural on the opposite wall
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St. Adalbert with the paddle
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Gypsum model of a gargoyle
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St. Barbora Church from outside
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And one more time with an object of known size
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St. Barbora, the patron of miners (and of the town of Kutná Hora), at the honorable place on top of the church's front facade
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Jesuit College
...and the rest of the town
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Church of Our Lady "Na Náměti"
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I obviously couldn't skip this place
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And, when trying to leave Kutná Hora, I learned why it could be a good idea to update maps in my navigation Album: On the way (and around)
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