Things to find in Czechia

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• Erzgebirge silver & the Freiberg mines Gem & 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...
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• The Golem of Prague Legend
  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...
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• The Nazi gold train Legend
  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...
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• The Ore Mountains silver, Freiberg Gem & 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...
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