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The chapel is formed by three spans 18.7 m (61.4 ft) long and 11 m (36 ft) wide. Light enters through three small openings on the left. Its walls and eight pillars are decorated in carefully arranged bones and skulls held together by cement. The ceiling is made of white painted brick and is painted with death motifs.
The Capela dos Ossos (transl. Chapel of Bones) is an ossuary chapel in Faro, Portugal, which belongs to the 18th century Carmelite church, Nossa Senhora do Carmo. Above the entrance, there is the following inscription: Pára aqui a considerar que a este estado hás-de chegar. which translates to
Charnel House at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai The Chapel of Bones in Évora, Portugal Skulls in the still-used Hallstatt charnel house. After a short burial in the limited cemetery space, the bones are transferred and relatives decorate the skulls of their loved ones with names and flowers that are symbolic of some characteristic, such as love or bravery.
The chapel was built in the 1400s. It was used as the final resting place for tens of thousands of people. The skulls and bones collected over hundreds of years.
The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have, in many cases, been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel. [1] The ossuary is among the most visited tourist attractions of the Czech Republic, drawing over 200,000 visitors annually. [2]
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Nave. This huge church was built in Gothic style (with some Manueline influences) between 1475 and the 1550s to the design of Martim Lourenço, replacing an earlier Romanesque church of 1226.