Daytrip to Kutná Hora

The itinerary of the Day Trip to Kutná Hora will start at the meeting point at 9:00 in the morning. The outward journey will take a little over an hour to reach the city of Kutná Hora. In the historic center of Kutná Hora, a UNESCO heritage site, we will see the Plague Column, a sculpture in homage to the victims of the epidemics, then we will go to the Italian Courtyard, passing through the central square.

Following the itinerary you will learn about medieval coins. Before reaching the Italian Courtyard, which was the Royal Castle of Kutná Hora and is now the seat of the town hall, we will see an entrance door into the city and the remains of the walls, from there to appreciate, in the distance, the Gothic Cathedral of Santa Barbara, which we will enter later.

After the Patio Italiano, which is a castle within the same city, we will skirt the church of Santiago el Mayor. Continuing, we will hear about the legend and curse of the Ruthard family. We will pass by the side of a second castle, defender of the entrance to the silver mines and current Mueso de la Plata.

A few steps away we will arrive at a public exhibition of sculptural ensembles that will remind us of the Charles Bridge in Prague, this in front of the façade of the former Jesuit College of Kutná Hora and current headquarters of the Art Gallery of Central Bohemia. At the end of the exhibition of sculptural ensembles is the Gothic Cathedral of Santa Bárbara, those interested will visit its interiors and hear about its peculiarities.

This guided tour of Kutná Hora will continue through a viewpoint, the old synagogue and the Stone Fountain, a unique Gothic civil monument. The tour through the historic center of Kutná Hora will end in front of the Casa de Piedra, a Gothic civil house that most resembles a church.

Then, we will continue with the Day Trip to Kutná Hora, but already in another neighborhood, the Sedlec neighborhood. Here we will visit the Ossuary in the center of a cemetery formerly considered "holy land". The Sedlec ossuary is a monument to the victims of the epidemics who due to momentary circumstances did not have the opportunity of an extreme unction and which, although it seems a bit macabre, gathers classified remains of 40,000 people.