Via BoingBoing, we find some great photos of the ossuary in Sedlec in the Czech Republic. It’s an underground church that contains the bones of 40,000 people. I visited the ossuary myself in 2002, and took a couple of photos. They’re not as good as Alex’s, but this one did win a contest in this magazine.
Another interesting note about the ossuary is that if you want to take photos, you have to pay an additional fee. This is presumably to mitigate the postcard and poster revenue lost from their tiny gift shop. The fee, to my recollection, was nominal. I figured it was a reasonable compromise approach to the thorny issue of photography in tourist attractions.
If you should find yourself in Kutna Hora (a small town near Sedlec), don’t miss the Church of St. Barbara. It’s my favourite cathedral in Europe. Well, my favourite of the ones I’ve seen.
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