Kutna Hora

Buy tickets at the Zamecka office, not at the chapel door. Photography is restricted and it is shoulder to shoulder by 11am.

Santini's baroque-Gothic cathedral is 300m from the ossuary and half as busy. Usually sold as a combined ticket.

Built by miners for their patron saint: three tent roofs, flying buttresses and frescoes of men working at the coalface.

The Czech Museum of Silver runs a hard-hat tour into a shaft under the town. Narrow, cold and genuinely memorable.

Baroque saints line the walk from the Jesuit college to St Barbara's, with the Vrchlice valley dropping away below.

Direct trains from Praha hl.n. take about 55 minutes to Kutna Hora hl.n., then a two-carriage shuttle into the town.

The main station sits beside the ossuary, so do the bone chapel first and work your way 2km uphill into the old centre.

Under ninety minutes by road, and most Prague day tours pair it with a Bohemian castle or a brewery stop.

April to October, when the mine tours and cathedral run full hours

Winter weekdays, though the silver mine tour shuts from November

Summer weekends, when Prague day tours arrive in convoy before noon

Off the Prague train at Kutna Hora hl.n. and straight into the Sedlec Ossuary before the coaches land.

Santini's Cathedral of the Assumption next door, then the shuttle train or a 25-minute walk into town.

Boar goulash and unpasteurised Kutna Hora lager at Dacicky, on a quiet square behind the old centre.

Hard hats on for the medieval silver mine, then St Barbara's Cathedral and the Barborska terrace.

Sunset from the terrace, a cocktail on Barborska, then the last direct train back to Prague.

A 13th-century castle still held by the founding family, on a ridge above the Sazava about an hour south.

Under an hour by direct train, which is why most people treat Kutna Hora as a day trip in one direction or the other.