Decorated With 4,000 Skeletons, This Roman Church Will Have You Pondering Your Own Mortality, Travel

The bones of long-deceased Capuchin friars are painstakingly displayed in a crypt beneath the Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception

Decorated With 4,000 Skeletons, This Roman Church Will Have You Pondering Your Own Mortality, Travel

This chapel in Rome is decorated with the bones of 4,000 Capuchin friars

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The sculptural skeletons of Rome

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The Bone Cemetery: A visit to Capuchin Crypt in Rome

This chapel in Rome is decorated with the bones of 4,000 Capuchin friars

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The Capuchin Crypt: the bone church of Rome explained - Nomad Travellers

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Decorated With 4,000 Skeletons, This Roman Church Will Have You Pondering Your Own Mortality, Travel