There are sites that just by looking at them, surely will cause chills; as they are constructions made or decorated with human bones. Making a tour of those places, mostly religious sites, it will be attracted by a sublime ornamentation, illustrating a past where the skeletons of humans, were the inspiration, incorporating them into those buildings; a very natural thing in antiquity, being a habit to honor the dead, that way.
Using this strange practice in our times, it would look like something sinister; however, it is still a matter of interest, for many people visiting these areas, although it is a bit creepy. Here we offer an interesting selection of the most important constructions, made or decorated with human bones.
“Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic” is a chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints, in the town of “Sedlec”. It contains approximately 40,000 human skeletons, forming an attractive decoration, conjugated in the equipment of the oratorio, with thousands of deaths caused by the Black Death in the fourteenth century, as ossuary for the vast masses unearthed, and it was in 1870, when a woodcarver, tidied the piles of bones in the chapel, with bone crowns guarding the domes, impressive displays decorated with human bones.
“Santa Maria della Conzecione dei Cappuccini” is a crypt located in Rome, is divided into five chapels, decorated with human bones of 4,000 Capuchin friars, being some of them mummified, wrapped in garments; This mausoleum was designed by architect “Antonio Casoni” at the request of Pope Urbano VIII. It is enclosed by a small enclosure, with side chapels, adorned with several famous works, such as the Archangel Michael, by the famous Italian painter “Guido Reni”.
Chapel of Bones in Portugal: is a place located in the city of “Évora” in Portugal, with walls covered with skeletons mixed in cement; keeping remains of 5,000 bodies. This chapel was begun to build in the XVI century, when the Franciscan cemeteries collapsed and had to unearth many dead; used as decoration for garnish the walls, an arduous task performed by a single monk.
Catacombs of the convent of San Francisco de Lima are located below the temple. It is a breathtaking site, being an ancient cemetery in colonial times; today, are seen in the different rooms, lots of bones, arranged aesthetically, transforming the area into terrifying stay; calculated some 70,000 skeletons and there is speculation that this construction can be connected to the cathedral, along with other churches in the town, through secret passages.
It is disturbing and terrifying attends to these places, marked by death; with uprooted beings on earth, which remain in the sight of all people, who dare to visit. Many were built out of necessity, as you have seen; distinguishing today, as an enhancement of these extraordinary constructions, made or decorated with human bones.
this is equality interesting as frightening