Take a journey to Kutná Hora, a UNESCO-listed historical treasure, and experience its beauty at your own pace. A comfortable bus will take you from Prague directly to this famous silver city, where you will have 3.5 hours to explore on your own. With an audio guide in your headphones, you will learn fascinating stories about the rich mining past, Gothic monuments, and unique buildings such as St. Barbara’s Cathedral and the Sedlec Ossuary Bone Church.
Stroll through the picturesque streets and soak up the atmosphere of the once richest city of the Czech Kingdom. Admire the imposing St. Barbara’s Cathedral, one of the crowning works of Gothic architecture, or visit the mysterious Sedlec Ossuary, also known as the Bone Chapel or Bone Church in Sedlec, whose interior is decorated with thousands of human bones. With the PREMIANT eGuide, you are free to discover the sights and hidden corners while listening to interesting information in your headphones.
After three and a half hours of exploring, you will comfortably return to Prague. This tour is ideal for those who want to explore Kutná Hora without a guide, but with all the information at hand. Enjoy the freedom of discovery and set out to discover the secrets of the Silver City!
As a gift from us, you will receive a ticket to the Railway Kingdom in Prague (can be used anytime after the tour).
The Sedlec Ossuary in Kutná Hora, also known as the Bone Chapel or the Bone Church in Sedlec, is a unique pilgrimage site, where the bones of more than 40,000 people are assembled in a unique decoration. This breathtaking and at times chilling space is a reminder of the transience of life and the rich spiritual history of the region. Today, it attracts visitors from all over the world who find deep reflection and an extraordinary artistic experience.
The Church of St. Barbara in Kutná Hora is a unique Gothic jewel and a symbol of the town, which still fascinates with its architectural elements. This UNESCO monument commemorates the rich mining heritage and spiritual significance of the region. Its majestic interiors offer visitors an unforgettable visual and spiritual experience.
The Jesuit College in Kutná Hora is an impressive Baroque complex, once an important center of education and spiritual life. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Church of St. Barbara, with which it forms an impressive dominant feature of the town. Today, it serves as a gallery and cultural space, linking historical heritage with contemporary art.
Hrádek ("little castle") was originally a wooden fortress protecting the town, but it was gradually converted into a residential seat and is reminiscent of a small castle in more than name. Though it has no castle tower, a building must always represent the wealth and taste of its lord. Hrádek went through several owners, who gave it an ostentatious Gothic appearance. In the year fourteen hundred ninety it was purchased by Jan Smíšek of Vrchoviště. In his thirty years of doing business in Kutná Hora, this man had worked his way up from an average local miner into one of the richest people in the Kingdom of Bohemia. Malicious tongues would say he was a crook and he drew his wealth from a secret smelting-house that he disguised as a scullery. Smíšek also sponsored the construction of St Barbara's Church and the fixing up of the Holy Trinity Church. He evidently wanted to be on good terms with the patron saint of miners St Barbara, to earn the favour of a diplomat between God and his own purse. He also acquired a noble title and he had his new coat of arms with a white rhinoceros painted practically everywhere so that no one who came to visit could doubt that they were in the home of an aristocrat. He emphasised his noble status with the outer Gothic appearance of the building as well, but in the interior rooms he gave preference to the Renaissance, which also provided him with much greater comfort. From the start of the seventeenth century the house was profaned. Illegal trades were carried out here, such as baking and butchery, and beer was even served in it. After the Jesuits came, a city school was established here. At the start of the nineteen seventies Hrádek was closed again and thoroughly renovated. It was not until ninety ninety-six that the Czech Museum of Silver was opened here with an exhibit dedicated to the creation and development of Kutná Hora and the technology of silver mining and processing. The tour also includes a replica of underground workings with equipment and a nearly two hundred and fifty metre long adit from an original medieval mine. Another historical monument is just a few steps uphill from Hrádek.
The Church of St. James is one of the most significant Gothic landmarks of the town. Its slender tower towers over the historic center and recalls the rich mining and cultural past of Kutná Hora.
The Italian court in Kutná Hora was once the center of silver coinage, which made the town famous throughout Europe. This Gothic-Renaissance building illustrates the rich mining and financial history of the region. Today, it offers exhibitions and tours that give you a glimpse into the art of coinage and everyday life in medieval Kutná Hora.
Palackého náměstí is the heart of the historic centre of the city of Kutná Hora. The majority of buildings here were originally Gothic, later converted to the Baroque style. The most important building, called the Sancturin House, was originally an exhibition palace, but was later converted into a dignified bourgeois mansion. Today it houses the world's first museum dedicated to alchemy and the city's information centre. The majority of the square was originally taken up by the town hall building, which in the year seventeen seventy burned down in a fire that consumed almost the whole town. The town hall complex contained shops, a poorhouse, a pharmacy, a hospital, an armoury and prison, and a taproom. Some of the adjacent, originally winding and crooked streets have been straightened to better suit the growing traffic. The square's current appearance emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. Thanks to its size, it becomes the city's main marketplace during the Easter and Christmas holidays. There is an information board here for tourists and many restaurants and cafes.
This church numbers among the representative structures of Bohemian High Baroque architecture. In the seventeen thirties, the city council decided to build a church in connection with the celebrations of John of Nepomuk's canonisation. Construction was carried out by local builders. The decoration is conceived of as a celebration of the Czech patron saints. During complete renovations at the end of the twentieth century, the Baroque interior was restored, including the furnishings. In the months of May and June the rays of sunshine passing through the red stained-glass windows can be observed lighting up the picture of Saint John of Nepomuk, who looks like he is bleeding. Before us you can see a rare Gothic fountain.
The Stone Fountain dates from 1493 and could be called tall, its purely Gothic decoration on one side is four meters high.
The Stone House in Kutná Hora is one of the most important examples of late Gothic burgher architecture in the Czech lands. Its richly decorated façade recalls the glorious era of silver mining and the cultural flowering of the town. Today, it serves as a museum that brings to light the historical and artistic value of this unique place.
The Order of Saint Ursula, the third religious order to have taken up residence in Kutná Hora following the Cistercians and the Jesuits, did not begin work here until the start of the eighteenth century. The Ursulines founded a girls' school here and attempted to build their own convent in Kutná Hora. Construction only began after twenty years of negotiations with authorities in the year seventeen hundred thirty-eight. The convent was designed by the important Baroque architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, who in Prague for example built the two Baroque Churches of St Nicholas in Malá Strana and on the Old Town Square. Due to a lack of money, only three wings of the convent were completed. During its existence the convent served as a military hospital for nearly three hundred wounded Prussian soldiers, but mostly girls were educated here. At the start of the twentieth century a pseudo-Baroque chapel was added. The current three-winged convent building is roughly half of the planned complex laid out as an irregular pentagon. A magnificent church was also supposed to be included, but it was not until the year nineteen hundred and one that the construction of a smaller church consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Our Lord was realised based on Dientzenhofer's original Baroque design. In the fifties, under the communist regime, the convent was nationalised. Since nineteen ninety-one, thanks to restitution, the convent again belongs to the Ursulines. Today various institutions are based here, along with the city archive and church schools.
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