The Crypt of the Capuchin Monks




This was awesome!!  This church was decorated with thousands of artfully arranged monks' bones.  Each chapel was a bizarre diorama where propped up monks, still in their skin and cassocks strike poses.  Each room was a different body part.  We weren't allowed to take pictures, but I snuck one right before I left of the chapel full of pelvis bones.  It was so eery to think there were 4000 dead monks here, and they all used to walk the church ( the church in the picture above) in their brown robes.

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