Tucked beneath the Capuchin Church of Santa Maria della Concezione, the Capuchin Crypt is one of Rome’s most unusual underground sites. Decorated entirely with human bones, it serves as both a work of ...

Tours of the mansion are led by their sons. Perhaps the most fascinating sight is about 1.5 miles from the center, in a crypt below a Capuchin monastery. The Capuchins, a branch of the Franciscan ...

View of mausoleums in the Habsburg crypt in the Capuchin Church in Vienna. Credit: Hackman / depositphotos.com The Habsburgs were originally from the Swiss canton of Aargau, with the family founded by ...

The pope's decision to simplify his own and future pontiff's funeral rites brings to mind the practice of burying Habsburg royalty in the crypt of the Capuchin church in Vienna. A court official ...

Italian-born Peretti arrived as a designer at Tiffany & Co in 1974; the Bone Cuff was inspired by childhood visits to a Capuchin crypt in Rome and Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Milà in Barcelona.

The 150 royal coffins in the Capuchin’s crypt are like no others: their elaborate burnished-tin decorations dominated by leering, crowned skulls. If you ask (and, based on our visit, even if you ...

In the Capuchin Crypt, however, six small chapels feature an entirely different kind of art. Read our latest issue or browse back issues. Before I entered the first chapel, a sign warned: “What you ...

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Malta had two picturesque venues exclusively built around the cult of death – the Chapel of Bones in Valletta and the Floriana Capuchin crypt. Pre-war, both featured as ‘tourist attractions ...

Dig deeper, or just go underground, to find more treasure and history. There’s the Capuchin Crypt with skeletons of the monks of the order, some still clutching their rosaries and crucifixes ...

After meeting with the tour guide at Piazza Barberini, our adventure began at the Capuchin Crypt, which is one of the most unique heritage sites where life and death converge. The crypt, situated ...