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[sherlitailus]

#praga #kutna_hora #travel #прага #кутнагора #архитектура #путешествие (at Cathedral of Assumption of Our Lady and St. John the Baptist) https://www.instagram.com/sherlihvostik/p/ButEFQDlAEy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15h2ouk9d3qqy

[thelaithlyworm]

This place, on the other hand... 

http://www.outsideprague.com/kutna_hora/bone_church.html

The well-known story of the Bone Church (‘Ossuary’ to be more correct or ‘Kostnice’ in Czech) in Kutná Hora is that, in the 13th century, Jindřich, the abbot of Sedlec monastery, returned from a visit to Palestine with a pocketful of soil and sprinkled it on the cemetery surrounding the Chapel of All Saints.

This direct association with the holy land led to the graveyard becoming a sought after burial site among the aristocracy of Central Europe. At the time of the thirty years’ war in the 17th century, the number of burials outgrew the space available, the older remains began to be exhumed and stored in the chapel, and it’s estimated that the chapel now contains the bones of up to 40,000 people...

Visitors to the bone church often describe it as macabre, eerie or creepy and I once asked the lady at the desk if she ever felt bothered to be working there. She flipped her hand in a dismissive way and said “Pfft! They’re only bones, they won’t hurt you; it’s the living who scare me”.

[sherlitailus]

#praga #kutna_hora #kostnice #travel #прага #костница #путешествие (at Kostnice Sedlec Zámecká, 284 03 Kutná Hora, Česko) https://www.instagram.com/sherlihvostik/p/BuBa6skF3DX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=y90a7eastbvi