Capuchin Crypt: Reserved Entrance + Audio Guide

Discover the eerie beauty of Baroque bone art in centuries-old chapels

Registered address: Piazza d'Ara Coeli, 16, 00186, Rome, IT

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Included

Reserved entrance to Capuchin Crypt
Audioguide to Capuchin Crypt
Audioguida app for Rome with more than 170 points of interest

Not included

Guided tour
Food and drinks
Transportation

Meeting point

16 Piazza d'Aracoeli, 00186, Rome

Please exchange your voucher for your ticket at the Touristation Aracoeli, in front of a small fountain. There are signs and orange flags outside.

Description

The Capuchin Crypt is a unique Baroque masterpiece, with few other places like it to be found in the city.

Inside, a long corridor with five chapels awaits you, adorned with the bones of nearly 4,000 friars from the 16th to 19th centuries. These bones form rosettes, pilasters, stars, and even chandeliers and crosses.

As you walk, you'll see thousands of bones—shinbones, femurs, and skulls—used to create niches and architectural features where skeletons dressed in friars' habits rest.

Each chapel is named after the types of bones used in its decoration and contains holy earth believed to be from Palestine or Jerusalem.

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