Shops outside our hotel down from Vyšehrad
Flats on the west bank
View from the walls of Vyšehrad looking north west
Hotel U Semika from the walls of Vyšehrad
Graveyard atop Vyšehrad
SV Martin (St Martin) cathedral on Vyšehrad
Old city walls
Art in a complex below the main Prague castle
The road up to the main Prague castle
View from the tower of the SV Vita (St. Vitas) Cathedral
Tiny work truck
Approaching Karluv Most (Charles Bridge)
Karlüv most
Czech king and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV
East of Karlüv most
Interior wall of Vyšehrad
Yes those are bones, from 40,000 victims of the Black Plague and the Hussite Wars:
In 1278 the Cistercian abbot of Sedlec, Henry, travelled to Palestine and the Holy Land, bringing home a sample of earth from Golgotha. Upon returning he sprinkled the earth over the grounds of his local cemetery. The grounds were immediately considered scared and hence became a much sought after location for burials. In the 14th century the Black Death spread the bubonic plague across Europe and now 30,000 bodies all wanted a resting place within the sacred grounds.
Such vast numbers of dead led to the creation of the ossuary in 1511 by a half-blind monk who gathered up the bones to be stacked up within the ossuary, making space for new corpses, which were soon taken up by more victims from 15th century Hussite Wars. The ossuary itself is situated in the basement of the All Saint’s Chapel.
Gate to Vyšehrad
Homes built into the cliff
Old town
Roadway up to the Salzburg castle
Inside courtyard of the the New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus)
Outside of the New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus)
