The Cappucine Crypt is a 6-room crypt filled with artwork made of human bones from 4000 Capuchin friars, some up to 500 years old. Many bones are nailed to the walls or ceilings in intricate patterns, some hang from the ceiling as chandaliers, and many others are piled high and somehow tied together forming furniture. The six rooms, in the order you now see them during a tour, are:

• Crypt of the Three Skeletons, where the grim reaper central skeleton holds a scythe and scales
• Crypt of the Leg Bones
• Crypt of the Pelves
• Crypt of the Skulls (1st photo below)
• The Mass Chapel, the only boneless room in the crypt, is a room where Mass used to be celebrated.
• Crypt of the Resurrection, where Jesus brings Lazarus back from the dead

    

The Crypt of Skulls (not my photo)
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Totally macabre, but fascinating nevertheless, the Cappucine Crypt is probably worth a half-hour of your time. The admission fee includes a tour through their museum before you reach the crypt. Being not particularly interested in the history of the Cappucine order, I walked straight through the museum to the crypt. For another chamber decorated with bones, try Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte.

    

Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, which houses the Cappucine Crypt below
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• My Cappucine Crypt photos
• Cappucine Crypt official site
• BONES