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Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Cimitero dei Cappucini

This was one of the weirder churches that I went to. Basically in 1798 they dug up the bones of 4000 dead monks and decided to use them as decoration. Thus you have arches and layouts made up compeletly of bones - skulls, shoulder blades, femurs, the whole lot. It was pretty creepy even for me (I'm use to having real skeletons around for drawing classes but not like this). Actually, 4000 bones of people fits into a relatively small space.

The other claim to fame for this place was where the word 'cappacini', as in the drink comes from.

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