We took a day trip from Prague to visit Kutna Hora, a medieval town east of Prague. The main attraction there, and our sole reason for making this town a priority on this trip, is Sedlec Ossuary, an old church decorated in human bones.
The church itself was built in the 1400s, with a church on the top floor and the lower floor an ossuary to use as a mass grave for plague victims and graves dug up to make room for new ones.
The bones were originally stacked up in the ossuary, however in 1870 by a woodcarver was commissioned to rearrange them. Using bones from over 40,000 bodies, he created chalices, crosses, a full coat of arms and a chandelier that uses each bone in the body at each once. In each corner of the church are huge mounds of bounds decorated by skulls.
It was a creepy, macabre and unbelievably fascinating place. After spending a while in there looking at them all, I found myself feeling my face and head and wondering what MY skull would look like in the masses.
