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Kutná Hora Historic Centre

Silver mining helped turn this settlement into a prosperous royal town.

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The story behind the place

Kutná Hora grew through the exploitation of silver mines and became a royal city in the fourteenth century. Its prosperity found expression in buildings such as the late Gothic Church of St Barbara. Medieval streets and houses preserve the setting around these monuments, linking urban architecture to a mining economy.

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