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Our first stop was in Sedlec to see the Kostnice (aka the Bone Church).
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The interior of this small church is decorated with 40,000 sets of human
bones! This chandelier contains at least one of every bone in the body.
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More views from inside the Bone Church...
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The Italian Court is a palace in Kunta Hora that was built in the
fourteenth century. It housed a mint that produced most of the silver
coins for Europe until the 1700s.
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A view of the Italian Court from its gardens below.
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A statue of the Czech country's founder, T. G. Masaryk.
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I took a tour of the Hradek, an old fort that was used as a second mint.
The tour included dressing up in a Medieval miner's uniform and going
down into part of the old silver mine!
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Kunta Hora's Cathedral of St. Barbora was built with the rich profits of
the silver mines. It is the most spectacular cathedral in central Europe.
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