Portugals Bone Chapel (Pics)
SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-11-15
TOPICS:
Cemeteries • Churchyard • Bone • Hospitality_recreation
[115 diggs @ Arts & Culture] The Chapel of the Bones is located in the medieval town of Evora. It is a large room decorated with the bones of more than 5,000 monks, exhumed from local churchyards to be used as building materials way back in the 16th century.
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