Before leaving Milan, and Italy, there was one more sight we needed to see: the church of San Bernardino alla Ossa. Apparently, in the 1200s they took the bones from the cemetary and put them in a storage room. When a church was built, someone had the brilliant idea to put those bones to better use to decorate a chapel. Hundreds of them. Completely creeping out the place.
Why anyone thought this was a good idea for anything other than a set in a Tim Burton movie is beyond me, but it is one of the most interesting churches we've ever seen.
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| Ready to worship? Yeah, me neither... |
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| Uh, wasn't this in Goonies? |
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| The scale is quite grand, and quite creepy |
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