Hey there my Hive friends and followers!
I´m really excited to come with something else than just my regular series posts again after a while. For reasons mentioned in this post, Hive time has been very scarce to me lately and I still cannot get used to it. But enough whining, I´m finally here with a new fresh post about our latest trip and that was a trip to the picturesque Czech town known as Kutna Hora.
I will tell you more about the town itself in one of the next posts but today, we will go straight to the most famous landmark of this lovely little town and that´s the renowned St. Barbara Church. To introduce you to this spectacular architectural masterpiece though, I first need to provide you with some very brief history lesson.
These days, Kutna Hora is home to just some 21,000 people, which makes it a little town even by our (Czech) standards but in the medieval times, because of enormous natural resources, especially silver, Kutna Hora used to be a very prominent and powerful city that even competed with Prague for the supremacy over the Czech lands.
Back in the 14th century, the construction of the magnificent St. Vitus Cathedral began in Prague but Kutna Hora wasted no time and soon after that, the St. Barbara Church started to be built in there. The Kutna Hora royalty even hired the very same architect Petr Parler that designed the St. Vitus Cathedral and they told him to design the St. Barbara Church in a similar, or maybe even more pompous fashion. What Petr Parler started, however, a number of other architects coming from several generations had to continue and finish as it took almost two centuries to complete the church.
Over the course of time, a couple of major reconstructions of the church were done so these days, you can see more architectural features on it than just the original Gothic. The St. Barbara Church truly is an outstanding piece of medieval architecture and it comes as no surprise that it´s considered one of the most important constructions that have ever been built in our country and maybe even in all Europe.
Without further ado, here are some pictures of the St. Barbara Church that I took in Kutna Hora just a few days ago.
I hope that you enjoyed the photos and that they also gave you some idea of the monumentality of the church. Usually, with such gigantic constructions, it´s actually very difficult to capture the building in its entirety so most of the pictures feature just some parts of the church. Unfortunately, the light conditions were not very favorable either as most of the shots had to be taken against the sun, which made me struggle pretty bad with the contrast and exposure in the post processing.
We already were a bit under time pressure by the time we got to the church so we didn´t go inside but after checking out the interior pictures on the internet, I can tell you it´s just as beautiful inside as it is from the outside ;)
The last image was taken from distance for a better perspective so let me just tell you that the elongated building that looks like a chateau is actually a Jesuit Campus that was built next to the church at the beginning of the 17th century.
To find out the exact location of the St. Barbara Church, feel free to check out the Pinmapple, I pinned it there ;)
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