Santa Maria Della Concezione Dei Cappuccini Church

Capuchin crypt and ossuary
The church is most famous as an ossuary, known as the Capuchin Crypt, in which is displayed the bones over 4,000 Capuchin friars, collected between the years 1528 and 1870. The bones are fashioned into decorative displays in the Baroque and Rococo style. The popularity the crypt as a tourist attraction once rivalled the Catacombs. The Sedlec ossuary (1870) in the Czech Republic is said to have been inspired from it.