Religious site
Chiesa di San Bernardino alle Ossa
In Chiesa di San Bernardino alle Ossa, the story begins not with a grand façade, but with overcrowding: in 1210, when an adjacent cemetery ran out of space, a room was built to hold bones. A church was then attached in 1269, tying the burial overflow to the living ritual of visiting and venerating the dead. That arrangement was later reshaped. The church was renovated in 1679, and it was then destroyed by a fire in 1712. After that loss, a larger church was attached and dedicated to Saint Bernardino of Siena—and the result, in Baroque form, is what the site is best known for: an ossuary chapel decorated with numerous human skulls and bones. …
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