Prague!

Hey all!

Sorry it has been a while, we are in the midst of finals here at school and I have been busy trying to get everything wrapped up and get ready to head home.

We recently headed to Prague in the Czech Republic for the weekend and it was great! A few interesting things we did were touring all over the different districts of Prague and a side trip to Kutna Hora, the home of the Kostnice Ossuary.

Prague is a very well preserved, beautiful city that avoided much of the bombing during WWII. For that reason, there is a lot of beautiful architecture to see. One of the most unique areas is Josefov, the Jewish Quarter. It was well preserved by the Nazis because it was to be turned into a museum-like area dubbed "The Museum of an Extinct Race". The Nazi's had planned to have people dressed like Jews touring visitors around the area showing them what daily Jewish life was like. Very twisted. Luckily, the area remained intact and is a great place to visit today.

Our side trip was a little weird to say the least. Kutna Hora is about 1hr ourside of Prague and the main attraction is the Kostnice Ossuary. During the middle ages, the groundwater was poisoned by leaking graves and the main graveyard had to be completely exhumed much like the graves in Paris at the catacombs. The exhumed bones were put in the new ossuary. The bone structures at the ossuary were started by a blind monk and then they were taken over by the Kint family who constructed a chandelier made with every bone in the human body and the family coat of arms. It was very creepy!

Prague is a great place to visit and a lot of fun, here are some more photos!

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