LocationLudovisi, Rome, Italy The museum is located in a crypt under the church Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini. There are bones of nearly 4000 Capuchin friars stored in the crypt. The bones are arranged into macabre decorations. The Capuchins have been using the church since 16...
Alice Collins
The Capuchin Crypt is a small space comprising several tiny chapels located beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini on the Via Veneto near Piazza Barberini in Rome, Italy. It contains the skeletal remains of 4,000 bodies believed to be Capuchin friars buried by their...
The Imperial Crypt below the Capuchin church in Vienna (the Kapuzinergruft) has been the principal burial site for the Habsburg dynasty since 1633. Today it holds a world-famous ensemble of sarcophagi and is one of the most important sites in Austria. Due to unfavourable climatic conditions in...