Sedlec (bonechurch) - 60km east of Prague
40.000 people were buried over the centuries on the small cemetery of Sedlec - 3 Km off the town-centre of Kutna Hora.The cemetery was part of the nearby Monastery St.Mary and had to be reduced in space in the year 1870.Thousands of Skeletons had to be undug and stored inside the church......and a woodcarver named Frantisek Rint had an idea, how to arrange these bones in a very special, artistic way .Frantisek Rint bleached the bones first by some chemicals and finally arranged all of the bones and skulls in a funny way and with some sort of the typical strange kind of humor you may find all over Czechia in art, literature and even in the way they treated the Russian occupants for several decades...Each and every kind of bones was used for these decorations and today the bone-church is one of the major tourist-attactions in the region and maybe even the whole country.For a lot more...
