3 legends, 2 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
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Erzgebirge silver & the Freiberg minesGem & mineral ground The Ore Mountains on the German-Czech border are the birthplace of European mining science: silver from 1168 built the towns, the word “dollar” descends from the Joachimsthaler minted here, and the miners’ names for troublesome... Open it on the map
The Golem of PragueLegend The most famous legend of Jewish Prague: Rabbi Judah Loew is said to have shaped a man out of clay from the Vltava and animated him to protect the ghetto, and when the golem grew dangerous he unmade it and hid the remains in the... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Nazi gold trainLegend One of Europe’s most persistent treasure hunts. As the Reich collapsed in 1945, a train said to be loaded with looted gold, art and jewels supposedly vanished into the tunnel system the Germans had bored under the Owl Mountains... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Ore Mountains silver, FreibergGem & mineral ground The Erzgebirge, the Ore Mountains between Germany and Czechia, gave silver to medieval Europe and gave mineralogy some of its founding language, the words “cobalt” and “nickel” come from the miners’ names for ores here, and the... Open it on the map
The Sedlec OssuaryLegend A small chapel under the Cemetery Church of All Saints at Kutná Hora holding the bones of somewhere between forty and seventy thousand people. In 1870 the Schwarzenberg family hired a woodcarver, František Rint, to do something... Open it on the map · Read the story
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