Cimitero delle Fontanelle

Cimitero delle Fontanelle

Year

1656

Type

building

A vast charnel house in the Rione Sanità, carved from the tufa cliff and containing the bones of perhaps 40,000 Neapolitans who died in the 17th-century plague epidemics and subsequent periods of mass mortality. The space (a sequence of roc …

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