49.95° N · 15.27° E
An hour by train from Prague: the Sedlec Ossuary decorated with bones, the Gothic Cathedral of St Barbara and a medieval silver mine you tour wearing a helmet.
What to do
Each plan says how long it takes, who it's for and whether you can book.
Chapel · 30 min · 180 CZK · ticket with a set day and time bought in advance
Gothic cathedral · 1 h · 180 CZK · audio guide or guided tour
Mine · 90 min · 200 CZK · from age 6 · closed Monday and December to February
Itineraries
Days and weekends already planned out, with how to get between each stop and who to book with.
Plan the trip
Each choice narrows the next: the season shapes how best to travel, and how you travel decides where you stay and where you eat.
When to go
April to June and September to October, with fewer groups. The Hrádek mine is open from March to November and closes on Mondays; the ossuary and St Barbara's are open all year. In December, January and February the day is short and the mine is closed.
How you travel
Choose how you're travelling and we'll tell you where to stay, how to get around, where to eat and which services you'll need. We only show the ways of travelling that make sense here.
Kutná Hora has no airport: you fly to Prague, with direct flights from Madrid, Barcelona and other Spanish cities, and continue by train from the main station, in about 50–60 minutes. From the airport, the Airport Express drops you at that same station. It is the easiest day trip from Prague and you do not need a car.
Kutná Hora is the ideal excursion without a car: the Prague train stops at Sedlec, ten minutes from the ossuary, and from the ossuary to the centre there is a local train, a bus or a walk of about 3 km. In the centre everything is on foot.
By car, Kutná Hora is about 80 km from Prague, around an hour. It lets you combine it in the same day with Žleby Castle or with Kolín, but inside the town everything is done on foot: park and forget about the car.
Who you're with
A trip with a toddler is not the same as one with a teenager. Pick yours to see what works and what to bear in mind.
Kutná Hora has what few excursions do: a real medieval mine. With children from age 6, the Hrádek mine is what the day is remembered for; St Barbara's impresses everyone and the walk along Barborská takes care of itself. The ossuary is best explained beforehand, or left for the older ones.
Kutná Hora hooks teenagers: a chapel decorated with human bones, a medieval mine with helmets and a town that many recognise from the video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. It can be seen in a day from Prague by train, and they can get around on foot on their own.
Where to stay
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Why we like it: A hotel opened in 1998 in a classical building on the edge of the historic centre, with 40 rooms, a restaurant and car parking supervised day and night.
Why we like it: Four apartments and three rooms in the very centre of Kutná Hora, next to the Dačický restaurant, each decorated with a theme from the town's history.
Services for this trip
Where to eat
From set lunch menus to Michelin stars. We mark the price level and what to order at each place.
What to order: a Bohemian dish from the menu with the tank-fresh Zlatá 12 from the Kutná Hora brewery.
What to order: a potato "cmunda" in the Kaplice style or a dish from the classic menu with a pilsner.
What to order: a coffee from the Kutná Hora roaster with a macaron or a hot chocolate.
Map
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Tips
It is sold only for a specific day and time, at sedlec.info or at the information centre. Beware of resellers.
Groups of 25 people every half hour; ask for the language of the commentary.
Sedlec first, next to the train; the centre afterwards.
It is forbidden: it is a chapel.
In the Middle Ages Kutná Hora was Bohemia's second city, rich from its silver mines, which minted the kingdom's coinage. When the silver ran out, the city stood still, and that is why it keeps an enormous Gothic cathedral, whole streets of medieval and Baroque houses and, in the Sedlec district, a chapel decorated with the bones of thousands of people. It is a World Heritage Site and the easiest day trip from Prague.
By train, from Prague's main station (Praha hlavní nádraží), in about 50–60 minutes; some trains require a change at Kolín. Fast trains stop at Kutná Hora's main station, which is in Sedlec, ten minutes' walk from the ossuary. To get up to the centre there is a local train to Kutná Hora město, a city bus or a walk of about 3 km.
By car, it is about 80 km, around an hour. Park in Sedlec for the ossuary and then in the centre: within the historic centre you go on foot.
Start in Sedlec, next to the station: the ossuary, with your ticket bought for a set time, and the Cathedral of the Assumption, five minutes away. Then head up to the centre and have lunch near Palackého Square. In the afternoon, the medieval Hrádek mine, with helmet and lamp, and a stroll along Barborská Street to the Cathedral of St Barbara, with its view of the valley. If you have time left, the Stone House on Václavské Square.
Do it in reverse order if your train arrives late: the ossuary is open until mid-afternoon in winter.
In spring and autumn, on weekdays, there are fewer groups. In summer many coaches arrive from Prague mid-morning: go early or in the afternoon. The mine is closed on Mondays and from December to February; in winter the ossuary and St Barbara's have shorter opening hours.
For most people, Kutná Hora is a day. Stay if you want to see St Barbara's with nobody around first thing, or if you are combining the town with another visit by car the next day. The centre is quiet at night and the taverns are full of Czechs, not tourists.
The ossuary costs 180 CZK, St Barbara's 180 CZK and the mine 200 CZK per adult. The return train from Prague is cheap. A Czech meal with beer comes to around 300–400 CZK per person.
Questions
About 50–60 minutes by train from the main station; around an hour by car.
Yes: the ticket is bought for a specific day and time.
Yes, but it makes an impression. Tell them beforehand what they will see; they will like the mine more.
Yes, about ten minutes' walk from Kutná Hora hlavní nádraží.
Mondays, and from December to February.
Yes: it is one of the great Gothic churches of central Europe.
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