- The Fontanelle cemetery in Naples is a charnel house, an ossuary, located in a cave in the turf hillside in the Materdei section of the city.
- The only way to discover the stories behind the "capuzzelle" or skulls is to take a guided tour of the Fontanelle Cemetery organized by Cooperativa La Paranza...
- Like many ossuaries in Europe, the Cimitero Fontanelle began as a secondary burial ground when the churchyards and crypts began to overflow.
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- The Cemetery of Fontanelle is one of the most fascinating places in Naples, a corner of Sanità full of stories, legends and curiosities that are just waiting to be...
- Among its tourist attractions today I recommend you visit the Cemetery of the Fontanelle, an impressive cemetery that is under a hill in the Materdei area of the city.
- The Fontanelle Cemetery in Naples, Italy is a 30,000 square meter ossuary that was a pauper's cemetery and holds some 8 million bones.
- Naples’ famous Fontanelle Cemetery is hands-down, one of the most unique burial grounds in the world and one with a story worth retelling.
- Skulls and silence beneath the busy city streets Cimitero delle Fontanelle. The Fontanelle cemetery is an ancient cemetery in the city of Naples, located in via...