Kutná Hora

Kutná Hora is a city of 29 thousand residents¹ located about 60 kilometers east of Praha (Prague) in the Česká Republic, and was a royal residence and medieval silver mining town. Its old buildings, along with the nearby Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec, constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Church of St. Barbara has interior fresoces of secular medieval life. Other structures include the Church of St. James, the Stone House and a Gothic fountain.²

External references

ossuary decorations in the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec, near Kutná Hora

Footnotes

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_Czech_Republic, accessed 9/13/2013.
2. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).