Dear Steemit friends and followers,
Welcome to my Travel Tip series where I promote some of the most beautiful places, interesting landmarks and impressive architectural sites of my homeland, the Czech Republic.
Today, I will certainly please all horror fans since I will take you to one of the creepiest places of the country, the legendary Sedlec Ossuary.
Source: Public Domain Pictures (Creative Commons)
A part of the former Sedlec Abbey in Sedlec, a suburb of the beautiful historic town of Kutna Hora, the Sedlec Ossuary is a small chapel found beneath the local cemetery. The chapel itself is quite small but still big enough to contain skeletons of up to 70,000 people! The bones are arranged to create decoration of the ossuary, making it one of the spookiest but at the same most visited tourist attractions of the country.
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With its origin dating back to as early as the 13th century, the Sedlec Cemetery used to be a very popular place to be buried at because an abbot allegedly brought a jar of "Holy Soil" from Israel to the site in early medieval times.
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Because of its unique spooky appearance and atmosphere, the Sedlec Ossuary has been featured in many movies and it even appeared in the iconic American franchise "Ripley´s Believe It or Not!"
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