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       Today we show you the graveyard of All Saints church, decorated by human skulls and bones. On the decoration of the chapel took about 40 000 (!) Human skeletons ... church is located on the outskirts of the Czech town of Kutna Hora ... 60 km from Prague.
 
In the 13th century, an abbot was sent to the king in the Holy Land ... When he returned, he brought with him a little earth from Mount Calvary, and strewed it around the cemetery Abbey. The news immediately spread not only to the abbey, but also outside it, and the cemetery became a popular burial place among the inhabitants of Central Europe ... Thousands of people would be buried on this cemetery, and the medieval plague and war cemetery is growing fast and as a result it has grown rapidly ... a look inside?
 
 Church of the tomb was built about 600 years ago in the center of the cemetery. The Shrine was to serve as a warehouse of bones taken from graves in the cemetery because the site lacked. The vacated space could be used for new burials or for building bones ... are everywhere ...
 In the center of the church is located ... chandelier from the same material ...
 400 years after construction of the emperor ordered the closure of the church and cemetery ... After a while, the family bought the monastic lands Schwarzenberg ... By the way, their coat of arms ...

 In 1870, the Schwarzenberg hired a woodcarver Frantisek Rint to he put in order a pile of stacked bones ... The Master has left his signature right on the wall of the church, the material, of course, were the bones ...

 Inside quite scary, despite a number of "after-attributes ..."

 Bones touched, tapped on the skull (carefully), I think the real thing, at least in the Medical Academy, which I finished, I've kept it in his hands ...
 Bones touched, tapped on the skull (carefully), I think the real thing, at least in the Medical Academy, which I finished, I've kept it in his hands ...



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