Sedlec Ossuary

The most outstanding and intricate bone place out of all of the Ossuaries and catacomb places I have visited, it is not just the mass of skeletons and bones on display but also how they have been displayed.

It is estimated to have 40,000 to 70,000 skeletons on display, that have been arranged to make decorative pieces like chandeliers, a coat of arms and each corner of them room has a tower of bones.

It is the most visited tourist attraction within Czech Republic, and in 1995 it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

With in the Black Death, which spread across Europe, many people was buried within the cemetery , it had to be enlarged, as well as having the church built, to be used as an Ossuary to house the graves that had been disturbed in construction and enlargement.

in 1511 a monk who was partially sighted was given the task to exhume skeletons and stack them with in the chapel, but it wasn’t to 1870 when Frantisek Rint was employed by the Schwarzenberg family to order the bones, thus these bones came to form the decorative pieces that can be seen today.

From visiting this place, and many other similar places like the catacombs of Paris I would consider this the most unique display.