Monday, November 3, 2014

Kutna Hora

A day trip from Prague sent us to Kutna Hora, home of the "Bone Church" and once a seat nearly as important as Prague for its silver mine and mint. Here's a view of the Ossuary ("Bone Church"). 


 Over 40,000 human skeletons were used to decorate this church in the style of Baroque devotion. They are supposed to remind us that our time on this earth is short. 


Every bone in the human skeleton is represented in this chandelier. I don't know about you, but I just found this to be creepy.


In a change of pace, we headed over to the silver museum and mine and got the chance to don white miner's jackets and hard hats and descend about 300 meters underground into a mine that was initially dug in 13th century.


Getting ready to go into the mine

The mine is narrowest at 40 cm, and shortest at 124 cm. Get out your meter sticks, it's tiny. 

But we did make it back up to the surface, better educated about why we both would not ever like to be silver miners.


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