Every European country we go, we will take a short excursion out of the main city. Like in Amsterdam, we went to Koog-Zandjik to see the windmill, in Italy, we went to Lake Garda. Around Prague, there are many other small tourist attraction town. My neighbour went to a spa town and took a bath there. I went to Kutna Hora to visit the Bone Ossuary.

*From the train station look… it looks like a dead city…. i know i know -_-

Kutna Hora is the 2nd most important city after Prague in the Bohemian empire during the 13th century and it has the largest silver mine in Europe at that time and serve its purpose as the main city that produce silver coins for the whole Europe.

Watch out! This skull is so cute ^^. It’s on the path leading to the church.

This is the Sedlec Kostnice / Bone ossuary / Church of Bones / Bone museum / etc.

The ossuary contains approximately 40,000-70,000 human skeletons which have been used to decorate the chapel. The Black Death in the mid of 14th century took away more than 30 000 lives in Kutna Hora and then followed by the Hussite War in the early 15th century which claimed more lives. Cemetery had to be enlarged and they need more burial space. But later one a church was build in the middle of the cemetery and many graves unearthed during the construction. The lower part of the church were made into an ossuary to keep the unearthed skeletons.

They said the job of stacking and piling up the bones was given to a half-blind monk. But his kerja must be very teruk that’s why later in 1870, František Rint a woodcarver was given the task to rearrange the bones and put it in order and the result is what we see today.

A lot of people think this place is creepy but my feeling is just like Sunako Nakahara (go watch Perfect girl evolution
aka yamato nadeshiko sichenge
). Hey there’s the femur bone and that’s the tibia. The corner of this chapel is occupied by 4 enormous bell-shaped pile of bones which mainly consist of the skull, the femur and tibia. =D. They used the humerus bone as decorations hanging on the wall, like the previous photo above.

This is the middle part of the chapel.

The word IN’RI above Jesus means Iesvs Nazarenvs, Rex Ivdaeorvm - Jesus from Nazareth, King of the jews.

The Schwarzenberg coat-of-arms. I think this is a beautiful piece of art made from skeletons. I’m impressed by the way the bones were arranged. There you see the jaw bone, rib, vertebrae… ekekeke.

The chandelier of bones. It contains at least one of every bone in the human body. This chandelier is very beautiful lor… how i wish I can keep one at home…. but then probably at night I will have a lot of visitors as well.

Tags: adventure, Bones, creepy, history, Kutna Hora, photography, skeletons, travel