The church has always been a symbol of the city and remains Kutná Hora’s most famous building. With its ring of chapels around the main altar, Saint Barbara’s Church is considered to be the most original late Gothic cathedral in Europe. The building...
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This inconspicuous building in the immediate vicinity of St. Barbara’s recalls the period just before work started on the Cathedral. At the time the Brotherhood of Corpus Christi founded a cemetery chapel with an ossuary inspired by the famous ossuary in Sedlec. This gave rise to a beautiful indoor space in the high Gothic style.
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A unique ossuary can be found below the Church of all Saints at the Kutná Hora cemetery in Sedlec, it is decorated almost entirely with human bones. It is made of the remains of the deceased from the plague epidemics. There are forty thousand and they are stacked into pyramids whilst others are used for unusual decorations, such as chandeliers, columns, and so on.
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The rare and unique UNESCO monument - the Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady and St. John the Baptist in Sedlec near Kutná Hora - is a convent of the former Cistercian Abbey, the oldest in Bohemia (founded in 1142). Together with the world-famous Sedlec Ossuary, this cathedral forms an integral part of the oldest part of Kutná Hora.
Open: all year
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At the museum you can see exhibitions on the city’s history and learn something about local life, or inspect samples of all the ores that were mined here. In the hall called the treasury you can see the Czech coins minted in Kutná Hora. Of course, the biggest attraction is the Second Tour - The Way of Silver, which acquaints you with the entire process the silver ore had to go through until it was minted into a coin. Part of the tour is a replica of the mining works with...
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One of the most important early Baroque monuments in Bohemia took almost eighty years to build, from 1667 to the middle of the 18th century. An integral part of the college’s grounds is a path with a gallery of baroque sculpture. This monument can be found neighbouring the cathedral and the way to the city centre. Currently it houses the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region – GASK. The GASK primarily focuses on the visual arts from t...
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