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About 1.9 miles away
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica. Book the museums ahead.
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Capuchin Crypt
Small chapels under a church on Via Veneto, decorated with the bones of some 3,700 friars. Macabre but strangely peaceful.
- Open
- Every day; check the website for hours
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 45 minutes
- Address
- Via Vittorio Veneto 27, 00187 RomeDirections
- Getting There
- Barberini station (Metro line A).
Why Go
The bones are arranged into arches, chandeliers and patterns across six small chapels, with a reminder that what you are now, they once were.
A museum on the way in tells the story of the Capuchin order.
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