The rest of Kutna Hora, part 3 - Czech blog #18

Well, you know me, so when I say this is the last post from my trip to the Czech Republic the end of September, you realize I might not be completely done. Thanksgiving is next week after all, so I might share one more episode with that in mind.

So here are a few random pictures from the city of Kutná Hora, located in the center of the country, about an hour’s drive east of Prague.

Earlier this week, I posted way too many pictures from the inside of St Barbara’s church. This is the view just outside looking to the right.

If you start walking away from the church and look to the left, you’ll encounter the Jesuit college.

Continue walking and you’ll be going along the Gallery of Sculptures.

Of course, they are all of someone famous in Bohemian history, but I’m not game to look them all up right now.

According to our guide, this building is open for tours and was part of the silver mine in town. On line, I found that this particular building housed a horse-powered winch used to pull material from the mine to the surface.

The view looking back at St Barbara's and the college.

A ranom wall. I'm not sure where. 

The Church of Saint James the Great was built in the Gothic style between 1300 and 1370.

The Stone Fountain is a twelve-side stone structure located in Rejsek Square. From 1495 to 1663, it supplied the city with drinking water, since many other sources of water were disrupted by mining activities.

Most of the towns we visited on this trip had a Plague Column. Kutná Hora is no different; its Baroque column commemorates those who died during the plague epidemic in 1713.

Perhaps, the last rose of summer.