Summer 2025
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Read more: Kutná Hora & Sedlec Ossuary Day TripToday, we visited Kutná Hora and the Sedlec Ossuary. Our first stop was the Ossuary, also known as the Church of Bones. In 1278, the…
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Read more: Heigh Ho!As our program comes to its midpoint, we spent the day at Kutná Hora, a historically significant town ninety minutes outside Prague situated right in…
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Read more: Exploring Kutna HoraBecause of its age, St. Barbara’s Cathedral requires a lot of maintenance, which leads to many engineering challenges. These challenges are securing the structure of…
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Read more: Day 6: Silver Miners for a Day
Today we started our trip with a visit to the Sedlec Ossuary Bone Church which was so cool! It made me a little queasy seeing…
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Read more: Churches, Mines, and More!Today, we went to Kutna Hora and we saw a variety of different sights including the bone church, St. Barbara’s Cathedral, a silver mine, and…
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Read more: Spaces High and Low in Kutná Hora
Located about an hour East of Prague, Kutná Hora is a town known for St. Barbara’s Church and Sedlec Ossuary, both of which we visited!…
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Read more: Sedlec, St. Barbara’s, and SilverToday, after another early start, we visited the town of Kutna Hora. Located about an hour and half east of Prague, this town was the…
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Read more: Kutná HoraToday was the tour of the silver mining town, Kutná Hora. Due to their profitable silver deposits, they were able to build grand structures. One…
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Read more: The Strongest Resilience Amongst the Greatest TragedyIn my 20 years of life I have never witnessed anything like the history of horrors I saw today. At the Terezín small and large…
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Read more: Terezin
Today we went to Terezin in the Northwestern part of the country near the border with Germany. It was a much more serious and heavy…
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