Yesterday someone posted a game about travels on FB and one of the questions was about a favorite trip. I started to think about which one would be mine but I honestly can't thing of a favorite because I have 3 or 4 or 5 that I really liked. One of them was Czech Republic in 2014. I loved it! One of the places visited was Kutná Hora, well worth the day trip from Prague.
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Kutná Hora is, as its name suggests, associated with the mining (kutání in
Czech) of silver. In 1142 the first Cistercian monastery in the Czech lands was
established in the nearby village of Sedlec and at the end of the 13th century
the original mining settlement of Cuthna antiqua – Old Kutna - soon became a
wealthy royal city. In 1300 King Václav II issued the mining legislation „Ius
regale montanorum“ and in the same year he initiated a coinage reform. One
century later another king, Václav IV, issued the Kutná Hora Decree, which
amended the proportion of votes at Prague University in favour of the Czechs.
Kutná Hora is therefore rightly considered to be the treasure-house of the land
whose wealth gave strength to the expansion of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Its
history and uniqueness were recognised in 1995 when the city was inscribed in
the UNESCO World Cultural and Heritage List.
Ever since the end of the 13th century the history of Kutná Hora has been
inseparably linked to the mining of silver ore. The historical centre is an
architectural jewel of European importance, and the late gothic Church of St.
Barbora and the Cathedral of Our Lady in Sedlec, rebuilt in the baroque gothic
style, create a notional entrance gateway to the royal mining city. - in: http://en.czech-unesco.org/kutna-hora/introduction/
"St. Barbara's Church is one of the most famous Gothic churches in central Europe and it is a UNESCO world heritage site. St Barbara is the patron saint of miners (among others), which was highly appropriate for a town whose wealth was based entirely upon its silver mines.
Construction began in 1388, but because work on the church was interrupted several times, it was not completed until 1905." - in: wikipedia
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