7. the Paris Catacombs
In the southern part of Paris, capital of France as it turns out, there is a large underground in the form of a maze-a maze that is used to store approximately more than 6 million human remains inside. The underground maze has a total length of about 300 kilometers and has an awful lot of hallway – tunnel branches so that if people are trying to get into it very likely he lost.
The number of bodies stored in The Catacombs almost three times that of the population who live above the maze it's IE.
Based on the facts of history, first with the rise of Christianity and the existence of a tradition of burying the bodies that should be close to the Church resulted in 10 areas of the cemetery in Central paris to become too full and it is difficult to develop because the city is located at. This resulted in only the rich who can afford the House carrying out ritual burial near the neighborhood church. As for people who don't have a lot of money, then their relatives for burial, provided the cemetery is more akin to a mass burial place. At the moment it's liang lahat already filled by human remains can be disassembled again and entered by other bodies as well as the remains of only a few who can afford to buy his own coffin, so that eventually a coffin that is already in use can be used again for the next funeral.
Currently The underground Catacombs museum for travelers, by presenting a gallery of human skeletons laid out neatly. The Museum is open daily from 10 am until 5 pm and is limited to just 200 visitors per Tour.
6. Tower of skulls of Niš, Serbia
The skull Tower in Serbia is one of the buildings that have a collection of bones, and intended to scare those who see it. Indeed the way used for hundreds of years in the past, precisely in the year 1809 when the fighters of the rebel Serbs suffered a shake-up is significantly due to dealing with the Ottoman Empire. To dampen the current uprising Serbian fighters, Turkey a commander ordered his troops to cut off the head of the corpse of the deceased, gather and organize them into a fortress, it is used as a warning to those who try to fight against the Empire. As much as 952 skull rumored to be part of the fortress, but over time many claims occur and bring the skull which is considered a member of her family, until now only 58 skulls alone in the Tower of Niš.
5. The chapel of skulls, Czermna, Poland
The story of the existence of the skull Chapel (Kaplica Czazek) is one of the highlights among other churches in Poland. The chapel was made between the years 1776 and 1804, when a Czech clergyman and assisted several local grave digger, spend countless hours digging and lifting bodies-the bodies of which there are countless, because it is a mass burial. They found a number of skulls with attractive conditions are then separated from the other bones. The skull of an interesting one is the bullet that has a hole in her head, allegedly during his lifetime he was a politician. Some of the bones are brought into the chapel. Overall the priest had found as much as 24,000 skull in his. Some of them are 16 feet in depth of the lands, but only about 3,000 skeletons that adorn the room and filled the Chapel, the Czech clergyman named this room with, "sanctuary of silence."
Capela dos Ossos. 4, Evora, Portugal
Capela dos Ossos, or more known also with the name of the Bone Chapels (Chapel Bones), it is located adjacent to the Church of St. Francis is one of the tourist attractions in the city of Evora, Portugal. Capela dos Ossos was built in the 16th century, with the aim to control the cemetery land needs of local people. One of the attractive room is where there are two bodies dried out — a man and a child, with a piece of chain hanging on the wall of the room. Their identities were not known, but based on interviews of local communities, their relationship was the father and the son, who acted against the evil mother/wife and then condemned.
3. Czech Republic, Brno Cemetery
The funeral of Bruno is a cemetery that is located under the square of St. Jacob already existed since hundreds of years ago. When a construction project of the new building have been determined and will be implemented in 2001, a ekpsplorasi any archeological activities undertaken. And the surprise of archaeologists, nearly 50,000 more human skeletons found visible meets space underground tunnels. Some of the skeletons exhumed corpse to get space for a new one, it looks like it's done so many frameworks that are visible in the tunnel space. Once upon a time the adjacent frame shells tightly enough, until then a flood and hit all the framework that exists in tunnels. Then the Government of the city of Brno perform a restoration effort in 2010 to 2011. It seems this is the funeral of Brno the second largest in the world. This is not the place of burial and creepy, but this place was a place of weaves hubu
NGAN between life and death, a place to meditate.
2. Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome, Italy
Santa Maria della Concezione is one of the most beautiful places, so that no one who would argue that death is a scary thing. In a church loomed over 4,000 Capuchin Friars bones arranged in such artistic, so it looks beautiful. Some of the bones were still equipped with the robes of a monk, but several Capuchin reassembled into several works of art be it a symbol or an ornament. A writing plaque ever found in the dalamruangan and said, "what are you experienced while on this, is that we've ever experienced. What we are experiencing now, is what you will. " It is a warning of oncoming death will in the course of human life. A warning that is warm and soothing.
1. Funeral Sedlec, Czech Republic
One of the places to see a collection of human skeletons in the world, is a cemetery in Sedlec which is contained in the country of Czech Republic. A small church building which is located in the suburb of Kutna Hora, has been met by more than 40,000 human skeleton. As a result the Church was later known as the Church of Bones (Bone Church), thousands more bones are assembled to form a space and get up that there is in this church. Religious symbols, ornaments, fences, staircases and much more.
In 1278, a monk named Henry doing a spiritual journey to the place where Jesus Christ was buried. After that, he was on his way of bringing a small amount of soil from the grave. He then cast the land into various rooms in the cemetery of Sedlec, and attempting to purify the land of the cemetery. As a result everyone assumed that the funeral of sedlec is a holy place and is best for someone buried with the dead, so that in the end the funeral could no longer accommodate the corpse be buried. Finally in 1511, bodies have been dug up, then reburied the bones of belulangnya they save.
The excavation effort lasts a long time, until in 1870 a Carpenter, František Rint, hired to organize the interior of the room, along with a partial, that is in the room. He also twisted the brain and trying to think of the presence of bones. Until tercetuslah an idea to create a work of art that comes from the bone. He then arranging bones into several art objects, ornaments, and even the means of worship such as altars, chandeliers, etc. Although scary even almost similar to a devil worshipper, but Chapel Sedlec is a holy Christian church building, which is also a funeral. Sedlec is a building and place another amazing wonders of the world
3. Czech Republic, Brno Cemetery
The funeral of Bruno is a cemetery that is located under the square of St. Jacob already existed since hundreds of years ago. When a construction project of the new building have been determined and will be implemented in 2001, a ekpsplorasi any archeological activities undertaken. And the surprise of archaeologists, nearly 50,000 more human skeletons found visible meets space underground tunnels. Some of the skeletons exhumed corpse to get space for a new one, it looks like it's done so many frameworks that are visible in the tunnel space. Once upon a time the adjacent frame shells tightly enough, until then a flood and hit all the framework that exists in tunnels. Then the Government of the city of Brno perform a restoration effort in 2010 to 2011. It seems this is the funeral of Brno the second largest in the world. This is not the place of burial and creepy, but this place was a place of weaves hubu
NGAN between life and death, a place to meditate.
2. Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome, Italy
Santa Maria della Concezione is one of the most beautiful places, so that no one who would argue that death is a scary thing. In a church loomed over 4,000 Capuchin Friars bones arranged in such artistic, so it looks beautiful. Some of the bones were still equipped with the robes of a monk, but several Capuchin reassembled into several works of art be it a symbol or an ornament. A writing plaque ever found in the dalamruangan and said, "what are you experienced while on this, is that we've ever experienced. What we are experiencing now, is what you will. " It is a warning of oncoming death will in the course of human life. A warning that is warm and soothing.
1. Funeral Sedlec, Czech Republic
One of the places to see a collection of human skeletons in the world, is a cemetery in Sedlec which is contained in the country of Czech Republic. A small church building which is located in the suburb of Kutna Hora, has been met by more than 40,000 human skeleton. As a result the Church was later known as the Church of Bones (Bone Church), thousands more bones are assembled to form a space and get up that there is in this church. Religious symbols, ornaments, fences, staircases and much more.
In 1278, a monk named Henry doing a spiritual journey to the place where Jesus Christ was buried. After that, he was on his way of bringing a small amount of soil from the grave. He then cast the land into various rooms in the cemetery of Sedlec, and attempting to purify the land of the cemetery. As a result everyone assumed that the funeral of sedlec is a holy place and is best for someone buried with the dead, so that in the end the funeral could no longer accommodate the corpse be buried. Finally in 1511, bodies have been dug up, then reburied the bones of belulangnya they save.
The excavation effort lasts a long time, until in 1870 a Carpenter, František Rint, hired to organize the interior of the room, along with a partial, that is in the room. He also twisted the brain and trying to think of the presence of bones. Until tercetuslah an idea to create a work of art that comes from the bone. He then arranging bones into several art objects, ornaments, and even the means of worship such as altars, chandeliers, etc. Although scary even almost similar to a devil worshipper, but Chapel Sedlec is a holy Christian church building, which is also a funeral. Sedlec is a building and place another amazing wonders of the world
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