The Land of Death – a perfect tourist spot

2019-07-05T14:51:12+02:00August 15th, 2013|

skull eating boneA church decorated with the bones of 40,000 dead bodies can be a source of meditative contemplation - or a macabre monument to commercial tourism. The ossuary of Sedlec in the Czech Republic leans heavily towards toward the latter, though its pride in its role as World Cultural Heritage prevents it from becoming ugly.