Trip to Kudowa/Czermna ( kaplica czaszek).

Kaplica Czaszek/Chapel of the Skulls



A chapel whose interior is completely lined with skulls and bones.





The entire walls and ceiling of the Baroque chapel are decorated with three thousand human skulls. Another 20 thousand are deposited under the floor. This singular work was done in the late 18th century by a local Czech-Polish priest , who wanted the future generations to remember the victims of the bloody religious wars of the 17th century, the two Silesian wars in the 18th century, and the cholera epidemics that plagued the region.........