Lovely Bones: Visiting the Sedlec Ossuary (Church of Bones)
| October 26, 2015
Getting There
The Sedlec Ossuary is located in the suburbs of Kutná Hora, a medieval town outside Prague. It takes approximately one hour to get there by train, and Kutná Hora is small enough to tour on foot. The ossuary is open year round (closed only on Christmas Day), and if you want to buy a souvenir, postcards, keychains, and even model skulls are available.
Is this morbid? In a sense, it is. The visitor’s guide concedes that the decor “may not be quite intelligible nowadays. We might be mistaken when considering the Ossuary’s decoration as mere bizarreness. It makes deep sense in the context of the stirred baroque piety.”
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