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Kutná Hora

A silver town with a cathedral and a chapel of bones.

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Kutná Hora was once as rich as Prague, thanks to its silver mines.

Museums in Kutná Hora

Look inside, then pay your admission straight to the museum.

The story of Kutná Hora

See the Cathedral of St Barbara, patron of miners, with its tent-like roofs. The Italian Court was the royal mint, where the Prague groschen was struck. At the Czech Museum of Silver you can put on a miner's coat and go down into a medieval mine. In Sedlec, the ossuary is decorated with the bones of some 40,000 people, including a chandelier.

  • 1995on the UNESCO list
  • 1300the royal mint is founded

Kutná Hora through time

The big moments, and where to see them today.

  1. 1409The Decree of Kutná Hora gives Czechs control of Prague University.See it: Czech Museum of Silver

What to do in Kutná Hora

  1. 01

    Czech Museum of Silver

    Silver, coins and a medieval mine.

    Kutná Hora2 hours
  2. 02

    Italian Court

    The royal mint and palace.

    Kutná Hora1 hour
  3. 03

    Sedlec Ossuary

    A chapel decorated with bones.

    Kutná Hora45 minutes
Getting there

Getting to Kutná Hora

Almost every museum is easy to reach by public transport.

Getting around Kutná Hora

Lines and timetables change. Check the operator’s website before you travel.

On the map

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Hidden story

A chandelier of bones

A woodcarver arranged 40,000 skeletons.

Read the storyClose

Earth from the Holy Land was spread in the Sedlec cemetery in the 13th century, and many people wanted to be buried there. After plague and wars, the bones were stacked in the chapel. In 1870 the woodcarver František Rint arranged them into bells, a coat of arms and a chandelier containing every bone of the human body. He signed his work in bones too.