Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Bone Church




While I was in Prague I took a train to Kutna Hura, which is about and hour and a half south of the city, to see the bone church. This was a church that had been built way back when (sorry, didn't absorb the history very well). After the plague about 40,000 people were burried in the cemetery, and then later were dug up and stored. Until 1870 when a carpenter who was hired to work on the church got permission to use them to decorate the place with... and this is the result. It is pretty fascinating and a bit of a morbid tribute to our mortality.

2 comments:

Deanna said...

These are fabulous!

Hey, give us some food pics too! I know Sasha and me would enjoy them!

Enjoy yourself!

Katie said...

OH MY GOODNESS!!! I’m SO jealous! I’ve always wanted to see that. Souvenirs?? ;)