About this route
Route overview
The medieval silver capital of Bohemia in one easy day with a private chauffeur — Kutna Hora, inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1995, in the 13th-16th centuries the second largest city of the Bohemian Kingdom after Prague, financing the crown through its silver mines. Standard plan: 9:30 hotel pickup in Prague, 10:30 arrival in Kutna Hora (75 km via D11 motorway and DK38 national road, about 1 h). UNESCO Old Town tour 2.5 h with a licensed guide: St Barbara Cathedral (late Gothic 1388-1558 designed by Jan Parler, son of Peter Parler of Prague St Vitus Cathedral, the second largest Gothic cathedral in the Czech Republic, mesh vaults with mining frescoes, miners chapel with a 1485 scene of work in the mine), the Italian Court Vlassky Dvur (from 1300, where the prazsky gros coin was minted — the currency that circulated through all of Central Europe, the silver mint of King Vaclav II), the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady in Sedlec (14th-century Gothic, Cistercian, the first Gothic cathedral in Central Europe). 12:30 transfer to Sedlec (3 km, 5 min). 12:45 visit to the Sedlec Ossuary — a Gothic cemetery chapel under the Church of All Saints, the interior decorated with approximately 40,000 human bones and skulls of victims of the 1318 Black Death epidemic and the 1419-1434 Hussite Wars; in 1870 the carpenter Frantisek Rint transformed the remains into a chandelier featuring every bone of the human body, a Schwarzenberg family coat of arms made of bones, garlands of skulls, crosses, chalices — a macabre masterpiece of ossuary art unique in Europe. 13:30 lunch at Dacicky restaurant in central Kutna Hora (traditional Czech cuisine, dumplings, local Dacicky beer). 14:30 return to Prague (75 km, about 1 h). EUR 480 Mercedes E-Class. Service runs 24/7 with flight tracking if pickup is at PRG.