Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Sedlec Ossuary
On our recent jaunt to the heavily tourist ridden yet still incredibly beautiful city of Prague we took a train south to the Central Bohemian town of Kutna Hora. Inspired by the Czech film-maker, Jan Svankmajer, we were hell bent on visiting the Bone Chapel we've been drooling over while watching his amazingly odd short The Ossuary. This tiny little unassuming chapel in a typical Czech suburb is beautifully adorned with over 40,000 skeletons, mostly from people who died from the black plague. Here we go....
Labels:
Bone Chapel,
Jan Švankmajer,
Kutna Hora,
Ossuary,
Sedlec
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