Starting in 2023, a restoration team worked to reconstruct the traces of what the site might have looked like in the past.

Step inside the Capuchin Catacombs and you’ll find over 8,000 ... two-year-old girl who still has eyelashes. Yep. Welcome to Sicily’s ultimate creepy-crawly heritage site.

Europe is always changing — and on my last visit to Sicily's capital of Palermo ... their bones were saved and put on display. The Capuchins of Palermo took this tradition a step further ...

Europe is always changing — and on my last visit to Sicily’s capital of Palermo I discovered ... Inside the Catacombs of the Capuchins, a maze of corridors contains about 2,000 clothed ...

Sicily is renowned for its stunning beaches ... site that is fast becoming a haven for dark tourism. The Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo houses a macabre collection of 1,100 mummies dating back ...

You almost have to exhaust yourself.” The last section of the Hujar show focuses on images taken in Palermo, Sicily, of the Capuchin Catacombs. Essentially, it’s a series of mummified corpses ...

The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo is the largest collection of ... The mummies are part of Sicily's heritage and are on display to the general public and tourists.

The Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi occupies two sides of a piazza, as well as several adjoining streets, deep in the heart of the Kalsa quarter of Palermo ... in the catacombs of the Capuchin monastery ...

Perhaps the most beautiful combination of works and setting at this year’s Biennale is Shahzia Sikander’s mini retrospective. The Palazzo Van Axel is a fairytale gothic palace, like something ...

Photography “converts the whole world into a cemetery”, wrote Susan Sontag. “Photographers, connoisseurs of beauty, are also—wittingly or unwittingly—the recording-angels of death.” ...