Kutna Hora- Sedlec Ossuary (The Bone Church)

If you are looking for something a little morbid and obscura this Halloween season than you may be interested in a stop at The Bone Church in Czech. The Sedlec Ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletal remains of 40,000 people. The reason the bones now are used as decor for the church is because they graveyard became overwhelmingly crowded and had to be dug up. As a result, in 1511 a monk was given the task to organize the bones. Eventually a woodcarver was commissioned to build sculptures from the bones in 1870.  The macabre yet stunning result can be viewed on the inside of the ossuary. 

The chandelier alone contains every bone in the human body and a few extra bones from other people's bodies. The church has been featured on Ripley's Believe it or Not and influenced the lair in the film House of 1,000 Corpses.  I personally found The Ghost Church to be scarier and more unsettling, but if you want the real deal to feel creeped out you can't get more real than 40,000 people's skeletal remains surrounding you.

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PRICE:
40Kč adults
photography permit is an extra 30Kč

ADDRESS: 
Zamecká 127
Kutná Hora - Sedlec, 284 03
Tel. 728 125488