Chapel of Bones, Évora

Évora · Portugal

Chapel of Bones, Évora, Portugal
Photo: Alonso de Mendoza, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A meditative 16th-century chapel attached to the Church of St Francis, its walls lined with the bones and skulls of thousands of monks. An inscription reminds visitors that the bones await their own arrival.

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