Anyone who spends enough time wasting their life on the internet, researching all the odd and beautiful sights you can find in the world has definitely ran into some obscure website that talks about that crazy human bone church.That crazy church with the skull chandelier is called Sedlec Ossuary and is just an hour by train from Prague which makes for a great bony-creepy day trip.
All in attendance: Kristen and Tom
Let's get out of the posh city and into the scary countryside. Tom and I took the train from the main station to Kutná Hora hlavní nádraží (one of Kutná Hora's train stations). A less than $10 train ride where we feasted on Germans spreads and Milka as Czech landscape zipped by.
The Sedlec Ossuary is a few blocks from the train station. Navigation is a breeze, especially when you follow a New Europe tour. Bonus spy points go to Tom and I who pretended to be part of the tour group long enough to gain free access to the small Roman Catholic Chapel.
Are you all excited for a gruesome history lesson full of sadistic, twisted and disgusting behaviour? If so, I am going to greatly disappoint you. Between the black plague and general population death over the centuries, the church began exhuming skeletons and stacking their bones in the chapel. In 1870, a woodcarver named František Rint decided it would be a more pleasent idea to store the bones in a more aesthetically pleasing way. The result: bone chandeliers, bone coat of arms, bone decoration.
Don't think that this chapel is a giant endless maze of bones. It's probably equal to the size of your laundry room. However, the longer you're there, the more eerie it becomes - especially when you count the skulls and realize how many 'people' are in that room with you.
After a spooky time, Tom and I winded down at a nearby pub until the next train back to Prague.
Things I liked:
- I'm not sure if people 'like' places like this, but it was a good visit.
