29 November 2014

Bones Chapel

The Bones Chapel was a prayer and meditation place about human condition, built by the Franciscans on the XVI century.
Its interior is completely covered by human bones from the graves of the town. At the entrance, on a classicist lintel in marble, the following and very well-known inscription can be read:
WE BONES THAT ARE HERE FOR YOURS WE WAIT 





Évora.
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