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Extract from the Kutn Hora Travel Guides:
Undisputed gem of the region east of Prague and UNESCO World Heritage site is
KUTN HORA
(Kuttenberg), 60km from the capital and once one of the most important towns in this neck of the Habsburg Empire. In 1308 Vclav II founded the royal mint here, and the town's sudden wealth allowed it to underwrite the construction of one of the most magnificent churches in central Europe, plus a number of other prestigious monuments. By the late Middle Ages its population was equal to that of London, its shantytown suburbs straggling across what are now green fields. When the silver mines dried up at the end of the sixteenth century, Kutn Hora's imp...
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