Chrám svaté Barbory This is a Roman Catholic church in Kutná Hora in the style of a cathedral. It is dedicated to St. Barbara who is the patron saint of miners (amongst others), which is quite appropriate for a town whose wealth was based entirely on it’s silver mines. Construction began in 1388 but due…

The Cemetery Church of All Saints with the Ossuary The church was built in the cemetery grounds of Sedlec Cathedral around 1400. The church was built with an upper vaulted level and a lower chapel to be used as an ossuary for the mass graved unearthed during it’s construction or those marked for destruction to…

Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady and St. John the Baptist This is the oldest Cistercian cathedral in Bohemia and dates back to 1142 when it was founded by monks from Waldsassen Abbey in Bavaria. This was the time of the largest expansion of the Cistercian Order. The abbey was originally built in the…