Many people visiting Prague will make a day trip to this town. As we were leaving the station, we noticed that there were many people like us, coming here for the first time, holding a map and a travel guide.
We walked to the Ossuary which is about 1 km away. It all started when the Abbot of Sedlec brought home some earth from the Holy Land and sprinkled them here. Since then, people in Bohemia and as far as Central Europe were dying to be buried here.
This Ossuary is said to contain the skeletons of at least 40,000 people. The present arrangement of the bones dates from 1870 and is the work of a Czech woodcarver, Frantisek Rint.
A chandelier made of bones
A chalice
The Coat of Arms of the Schwarzenburg
The name of F. Rint written in bones.
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