Discovering Kutna Hora Town, Czech Republic

Before I get to the nature of the Czech Republic I want to get civilization out of the way. We didn't only stay in Prague, on the third day of our trip we decided to take a train and visit a town named Kutna Hora. It is about 80km away from Prague to the east of the country. Mostly we wanted to see a church that is decorated with real human bones and thousand of skulls inside.
There were several churches there but I was only able to photograph these from the outside, it was forbidden to take photos inside, its a shame, these were gorgeous inside.

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Next up is the bone church I was talking about. The name is Kostnice Sedlec. Again, it was forbidden to take photos inside so I only have some taken from outside. You can google the name if you want to see the skeletons inside. There are many many thousands of different people's bones there. War and plague victims mostly.
Outside there was a cemetery around the church.

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The heat on that day was pretty much intolerable. There was +36C and full sunshine. It's too much for us, northern people. We do have very hot days here in Estonia too, +34 and so on but we had to be outside all day with +36 there. It was just too much, made us a bit tired and grumpy. Still, we managed to advance somehow, want many choices either.

We arrived in the old town of Kutna Hora. It was really deserted I would say. Hardly any tourists to be seen and a couple of cars or people here and there, felt a bit weird.

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We walked around a bit, found some really good restaurant to sit in for a while and then back on the train and to Prague, it was also the first day of the music festival that was our main purpose of going ti Czech Republic




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