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....
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wow! that brings back memories of long uncertain bus journeys followed by astonishment when we eventually found it. It's a truly incredible place.
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