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"With such crucial geography, Kłodzko and its most prominent castle perched on a high rock in its most prominent town of the same name, sometimes also called “Little Prague,” was oft a coveted prize... A macabre result of Kłodzko’s valuable appraisal may be seen in the southwestern corner of the basin where the skulls and crossbones of thousands of victims of local wars (as well as famine and pandemics) plaster the ceilings and walls of the 'Skull Chapel of Czermna.'"

— page 203, Into the Carpathians, Part 2, © Alan E. Sparks.