Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Pathways
One of the dozens of small pathways between grave sites at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. See more pathways at Ailsa’s Where’s My Backpack page. Continue reading Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Pathways
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Macabre Monkey
Kongo visited the “Bone Church” in Sedlec, Czech Repubulic (near Kutna Hora), a town dating from the 13th century located about two hours outside of Prague (depending on traffic, road construction, and tour guides).
In the 1200s an abbot returned from Jerusalem with a bag of dirt from the Holy Lands and sprinkled a handful on the graveyard at the small chapel of the Queen of All Saints outside the medieval silver mining town of Kutna Hora. This made the cemetery so popular that people from all over central Europe wanted to be buried there. This really was one of those “to die for” places at the top of everyone’s last resting place list.
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