Explore Kutná Hora

The Italian Court in Kutná Hora was the royal mint where the Prague groschen was struck from around 1300, named after the Italian experts behind King Wenceslas II's coinage reform. Rebuilt as a royal residence in the late 14th century and used as the town hall after 1770, it shows the mint, the royal chapel and audience hall, and the cellars.

The Jesuit College is an early Baroque building in Kutná Hora, built from 1666 to 1750 for the Jesuit order, which ran a college here until 1773. It stands beside St. Barbara's Church above a terrace lined with Baroque statues and today houses GASK, the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, with modern and contemporary art.

St. Barbara's Church is a Gothic church in Kutná Hora dedicated to the patron saint of miners, begun in 1388 and completed only in 1905. Matěj Rejsek and Benedikt Rejt continued the work after 1481; its tent-shaped triple roof and flying buttresses rise above the valley, and inside are medieval frescoes of the silver-mining town.

The Church of the Assumption of Our Lady and Saint John the Baptist in Sedlec, part of Kutná Hora, was built around 1300 for the Cistercian abbey as the first church in Bohemia modelled on French Gothic cathedrals. Burnt by the Hussites in 1421, it was restored in 1700–1708, largely by Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel in his Baroque Gothic style.

Sedlec Ossuary is the lower chapel of the Cemetery Church of All Saints, a two-storey Gothic church of the former Cistercian abbey in Sedlec, part of Kutná Hora. The bones of an estimated 40,000 to 70,000 people are arranged inside, including a chandelier and the Schwarzenberg coat of arms, set out by the woodcarver František Rint in 1870.