Kutna Hora

Hi it's Tait,
On Wednesday we looked around Kutna Hora. We saw the cathedral with all its frescos, paintings and statues. It was built in 1368, and we also learnt that Kutna Hora had the deepest mine in the world at that time. We looked in shops and got some clothes and things for the snow. I got ski pants and ski socks, as well as Xcountry ski gloves and glasses to wear in the snow.

I liked Kutna Hora because it was very most of the buildings were 500 years old. They still had the old town wall which ran along a lane way that was named after the daughter of the burgermeister (town mayor), because she was locked into a cupboard by her father and left to die!
After looking around the old town centre, we drove to Sedlec. We visited an ossuary (church and graveyard). During the plague of the 1600’s they ran out of space in the graveyard, so the dug up all the skeletons of the people who were already buried there. There were thousands and thousands of bones. The new dead plague victims were buried in the empty graves, and the bones were arranged by an artist/woodworker inside the ossuary. There is a chandelier made of every boned in the human body. There are family crests and his name was signed in bone! After the Ossuary, we drove to Olomouc, a university town in South Marovia.