Creative Musings

After we finished seeing St. Peter's and the Vatican museum we took some time walking around the city and finding other smaller sites that were on our list like the Trevi Fountain.

One place that was rather interesting was the Crypt of the Capuchins. It's a crypt under the Church of the Immaculate, and it's pretty creepy. Basically, when the Capuchin friars moved to this church, they brought with them the remains of the deceased friars. The bones were arranged along the walls, and the friars began to bury their own dead there, as well as the bodies of poor Romans. Basically, there were a few rooms under the church, and a good majority of the walls and ceilings are covered with bones. For those people interested in biology and human anatomy, it's interesting to figure out what part of the skeleton each bone came from. It was sort of strange. Sadly, there were no photos allowed, so I don't have anything to show, which maybe you are happy about.

Here's my photo album from my second day in Rome, after St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museum.

Labels: Rome, Trevi Fountain