We were super excited for our BIG family vacation in August! We met my parents and Aunt and Uncle to explore the Danube River and celebrate my dad's retirement - Go dad! We met my parents in Prague for the start of the big trip. Before heading off, Tom and I spent the a day outside of Prague checking out the famous Bone Church in Kutna Hora. I have to say, I've never seen anything quite like it...sort of creepy but incredibly intriguing. We also explored the adorable town of Kutna Hora and the ride through the Czech countryside was so pretty.
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.
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| On our drive |
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| Outside the Bone Church |
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| Inside the Church |
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| Exploring Kutna Hora |
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| Tom playing around on the drive back to Prague |
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