I woke up with a nasty hangover and had to scramble into clothes to make it to the metro in time. I somehow managed to make it to the coach bus on time and promptly passed out until we arrived at our destination. I stepped off the bus to the sight of a beautiful, albeit snowy, little village. The town used to be valuabe due to its copious silver mines, all of which have long since run dry. We split into small groups and were given a tour of various sights in the town. We started with a beautiful old (and RICH) gothic church. The tour would have been great if it wasn't about 18 degrees inside and our tourguide didn't love his own voice with a passion.
We proceeded next to the town's Castle. The castle itself was beautiful with some impressive artwork. More importantly however, the castle housed the silversmiths who minted their own unique currency. We saw the transformation of the coins with each successive ruler and dynasty. Pretty cool stuff, and we got our own small coin from a dressed up dude pretending to be a silversmith.
After eating in an old beer-hall (pretty legit and great hot wine), we drove to the nearby Bone Church. This church was constructed in the late 19th century after someone discovered an ancient mass-grave, most likely from the Plague. There were supposedly 40,000 bodies discovered there. An artist decided that instead of just leaving these bodies, he would turn them into works of art and decorate a church with them. Pretty freaking weird and kinda spooky, but still pretty impressive nontheless. We were able to walk around for about an hour and see a crest made up of every bone in the human body and also a chandelier made up of vertebrae and pelvic bones. What the hell do they do here in the Czech Republic?
The Crest
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