1996 Prague and Nearby Spots Including the 'Bone Church' Sedlec

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Prague 1996 Views of the City, Hradcanny -Prague Castle, St. Vitus, St. Charles Bridge is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Prague, and the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. The full name of the cathedral is St. Vitus, St. Wenceslas and St. Adalbert Cathedral. Located within Prague Castle and containing the tombs of many Bohemian kings, this cathedral is an excellent example of Gothic architecture and is the biggest and most important church in the country.
St. Kutna Hora St. Barbara Church,"St. Barbara Church (often incorrectly St. Barbara Cathedral (Bohemia) is one of the most famous Gothic churches in central Europe and is a world heritage site. Its first architect is claimed to have been Johann Parler.
The construction began in 1388, but work on the cathedral was interrupted several times, making the final work completed in 1905.
Kutna Hora began in 1142 with the settlement of the first Cistercian Monastary in Bohemia, Kloster Sedlitz, brought from the reichsunmittelbar Cistercian Imperial Waldsassen Abbey. By 1260 German miners began to mine for silver in the mountain region, which they named Kuttenberg, and which was part of the monastery property. The name of the mountain is said to have arrived from the miners workclothes garb (the Kutten). Under Abt Heinrich Heidenreich the territory greatly advanced due to the silver mines which gained importance during the economic boom of the 13th century.
Bone Church Sedlec "The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints ) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary contains approximately 40,000-70,000 human skeletons which have been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel. During the Black Death in the mid 14th century, and after the Hussite Wars in the early 15th century, many thousands of people were buried there and the cemetery had to be greatly enlarged."
Swimming and a Castle Swimming with friends outside of Prague and Castle Kokorin, skateboarders at the Metronome in Letna Park which used to be the location of the Stalin Monument.

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