Fontanelle Cemetery

Campania · Italy

Fontanelle Cemetery, Italy
Photo: Lalupa, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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This ossuary carved into the tuff caves beneath Naples holds thousands of anonymous skulls and bones from plague and cholera epidemics. The site became the center of a folk cult in which locals adopted and cared for the abandoned dead.

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