Hey! Where did my bones go? If you were buried in the indoor cemetery at Santa Maria della Concezione, that would be your question. Do you know why? When they used up all the space in the cemetery, they dug up all the bones. And do you know what they did with them? They decorated with them! From walls to chandeliers, from beds to clocks. And guess what? There was a Barbarini princess (it was just her skeleton of course) holding a sickle and a scale.
The message at the end of the cemetery was this: "We were what you are, and what we are you will be."
So, why did we go there? It was the day before Halloween and we thought it would be kind of creepy. It wasn't really creepy, it was cool. I was really surprised at how many different ways they decorated with the bones.
Unfortunately, like a lot of other places, we weren't allowed to take pictures, so we bought some postcards. That place is really quite something, isn't it?-Paul
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