Catacombs of the Capuchins (Italian Catacombe dei Cappuccini) - burial catacombs located in the city of Palermo in Sicily, in which the clear remains of more than eight thousand people, most of the local elite and eminent persons - clergy, nobility, and representatives of various professions. This is one of the most famous exhibits of mummies - skeletirovannye, mummified, embalmed bodies of the dead lie, stand, hang, form a composition.
By the end of the XVI century the number of inhabitants of the monastery of Capuchin greatly increased, and there was a need for decent and spacious cemetery for the brethren. For this purpose we adapted the crypt under the temple of the monastery. In 1599 there was buried brother Silvestro of Gubbio from, and then were moved here a few remains of the previously deceased monks. In what has become the crypt room cramped, Capuchins, and gradually dug a long passage in which up to 1871 placed the body of the dead monks.

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