Kutna Mountain and Sternberk Castle

Now I will tell you about my excursion from Prague to Kutna Gora and the Czech Sternberg Castle.

Start from your hotel, as usual, at 9:00.

The main target of today’s trip is Kutna Hora.

Volens-nolens on the way to this unusual city will be expressively crowning the rock medieval castle Czech Sternberk.

From afar, he looks very much like a noble knight, prepared for a victorious battle.

This stone giant, as if clutching a huge sparkling sword, as if peering through the slots of the bacinet into the blue Sazava distance.

Looking at this huge stone machine from the foot of a three-hundred-meter rock, you involuntarily experience admiration for valiant knightly times and some involuntary timidity.

The Sternberg Gothic Colossus, like many of its European counterparts, served for hundreds of years as a reliable protector and guardian.

Now all enemy attacks are in the past, but his resolute readiness for exploits is felt today.

For almost eight hundred years, the Czech Sternberk is owned by the descendants of the knight Zdeslav of Divišov, whose brother Yaroslav, according to the chronicle of Pulkava, in 1241 saved an old woman-Europe, stopping the horde of Subedei near Olomouc.

In today’s Czech Sternberk, the descendants of those brothers live, and this only adds to the sensations during a tour of the castle.

After it, thoroughly imbued with history and fully tuned to the medieval wave, it is time to get to Kutnaya Gora.

Despite the unobtrusive current provincialism, the past of this city is closely connected with Europe of the High and Late Middle Ages.

In its best years Kutna Hora was a European silver breadbasket and coin forge. From the ore mined here for centuries minted a real full-fledged currency.

Once upon a time, Kutna Hora was a unique Mint with a closed production cycle.

At the same time, not only the craft, but also a large-scale urban infrastructure developed.

Under the watchful control of kings, by the fourteenth century Kutna Hora had become a state within a state.

However, since then many centuries have sailed away, and the city has long since played its former role.

Its present charm is in cozy provinciality and narrow streets, in many museums and monuments, as well as in the genuine history flowing from everywhere.

Bypassing all the most interesting things and talking about the glorious Kutnogorsk past, we will dine in one of the sweetest establishments and go home to Prague.