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Capela dos Ossos
The Capela dos Ossos is a small interior chapel in Évora, Portugal, located next to the entrance of the Church of St. Francis. Its walls and eight pillars are lined and decorated with arranged human skulls and bones. The chapel contains painted vaulted ceilings, a framed poem on a pillar, two desiccated corpses in glass cases, and a focal altar at the far end.
Its prime
1848
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1848
What Capela dos Ossos looked like in its prime.
A long, narrow vaulted chapel with three barrel spans and a central aisle floored in dark stone with lighter stripes; eight load-bearing columns and continuous walls are sheathed in stacked human skulls and long bones set in mortar, forming patterned bands. Pale, frescoed ribs and ornamental motifs cover the white-painted vaults. Light filters through three small high windows on the left; a gilded altar anchors the far end, and glass display cases with two desiccated corpses sit near the front pillars.
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9 places to explore in 1848.
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