Kutná Hora: Coiners of Medieval Europe

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7 hours (approximately)
Pickup offered
Offered in: English

Just one hour’s drive from Prague, this Kutna Hora day tour acquaints you with a charming medieval town inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage Fund, full of picturesque monuments and sites that take you back to another age. From the 1300s, the mines in Kutná Hora contributed an entire third of the European production of silver, spurring the economic dominance of the Bohemian Kingdom. The silver “Prague groschen” was a hard currency throughout Central Europe for several centuries. Naturally, the wealth of Kutná Hora prompted the town to express its importance by commissioning soaring medieval cathedrals, elegant town squares, and townhouses that we can still enjoy today. With your historian guide, you will also visit nearby Sedlec, to experience the uncanny and fantastic Baroque Bone Chapel or Ossuary decorated with the skeletons of 60,000 victims of the plagues and Hussite Wars.

What's Included

Air-conditioned vehicle
Lunch is self-paid. Your guide will help you to select great choices from a traditional Czech menu at an excellent but casual local Kutna Hora restaurant.

Meeting and pickup

Pickup points
You can choose a pickup location at checkout (multiple pickup locations are available).
Pickup details:

Our private driver and guide will be outside your hotel or holiday flat holding a sign with your name.

Itinerary

Duration: 7 hours (approximately)
  • 1
    The Cemetery Church of All Saints with the Ossuary

    Visit the atmospheric Bone Chapel at Sedlec, while your historian guide helps you ponder the Baroque-era philosophies of resurrection and redemption that prompted the use of thousands of human bones as an ornate church decoration.

    30 minutes • Admission ticket not included
  • 2
    Kutna Hora

    Explore medieval and Renaissance town squares and charming house facades. Delve into Bohemia of the middle ages, when sovereigns of the 13th and 14th centuries were among the most powerful rulers in Europe.

    1 hour • Admission ticket free
  • 3
    St Barbara's Cathedral

    Encounter the stupendous vaulting of St. Barbara Cathedral, a masterwork of medieval construction

    40 minutes • Admission ticket not included
  • 4
    The Cathedral of Assumption

    The Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady at Sedlec, a part of the former Cistercian monastery, is equally worth the attention of any architecture lover in addition to the historical city center. It is the biggest and the most challenging cathedral in the Bohemian lands from the late 1200s showing the might of the politically active abbots (the heads of monasteries).

    30 minutes • Admission ticket not included

Additional info

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Supplied by Insight Cities

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Day Trips
Full-day Tours
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Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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