St Michael's Chapel

Košice


To the south of the Cathedral of St Elizabeth you can admire the outside of 14th-century St Michael's, a Gothic chapel dedicated to the patron saint of the dead with a former ossuary in its cellars.

Arrange a tour through St Elizabeth's Cathedral.


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