Capuchin Crypt News Today

Glorious corridors of the past and mesmerizing invitations of the present Guide To Italy - Places To Visit & Where To E

The Czech Republic is one of the most beautiful countries in Central Europe, for sure. Here are the best things to do in the Czech Republic.

The vaults and walls of the crypt in the Capuchin Church of S. Maria della Concezione on Romes Via Veneto are decorated with the bones and skulls of some 3,700...

Fundamentally, ‘Dark Tourism’ locations are places from which we feel a strong emotional response to death or tragedy.

One does not go to Rome planning to come back with a greater appreciation of death.

A new Italian season of the hit HBO show is haunted by mortality.

Locals found the massive skull sitting in the vast shallows of Biscayne National Park. No one knew how it got there or how the animal had died.

Deep under the streets of Paris, I was all alone…surrounded by literally millions of bones — tibiae, fibulae, pelvises, and skulls, all stacked along miles of tunnels. I was in the Paris Catacombs.. . .

YOU could be forgiven for feeling a little jealous of the England football team, jetting off to Rome at just a few days’ notice. Near the top of most travel wish-lists, sights like the Colosseum, the Pantheon, and St Peter’s Basilica are legendary, but there’s plenty more to the Italian capital that can’t all fit on the cover of the guidebooks. We don’t imagine Gareth Southgate’s boys will get to go sightseeing, but here are a few lesser-known spots they should check out if th...

Popularly known as the Capuchin Crypt, the ossuary displays the bones of over 3,700 Capuchin friars, who died between 1528 and 1870. It is ornately decorated with skulls and bones displayed in the Baroque and Rococo styles, with a skeleton dressed as ‘Death’ standing in a niche. h/t: vintag.es