Bone Church•Kutna Hora

About an hour train journey away from Prague city centre is the old town of Kutna Hora, which is famous for its Bone Church. It is an ossuary where the bones and skull of around 40,000 people arranged in an artistic design.

How to go to Ossuary (Bone Church)?
1. Take train from Hlavni Nàdrazi to Brno (about an hour journey).
2. Exit at Kutna Hora train station, take a right and walk up the road towards the main elevated road ahead.
3. Take a left and follow the road until hit the first major church.
4. Directly opposite the church, on the right hand side, there is a small side road.
5. Walk up this road and will reach Bone Church.

We paid 70 Koruna per person for the admission (40 Koruna for the entrance fees + 30 Koruna for the fees to take photos inside the church). It is an amazing bone church. One thing that surprised me was how small the church is and it consists of a wide stairway, leading down to a room with bones of 40,000 people fit inside.

The interior of the church is completely decorated with human bones in the most fascinating patterns. Bones of all shapes and sizes. Besides being piled up, the bones and skulls are used to make chandeliers, crucifixes, bells, decorative coat of arms and other decorations around the church. What really caught my eye were four enormous pyramids located in the centre of the church decorated with piles of skulls and the bones ceiling above these pyramids. There is also a pretty cemetery outside the church.

This was an unbelievable place and is worth to visit. We leave the church with a reminder of how precious life really is.

18/06/2006•Prague•Czech Republic