Nearly to the end of via Veneto, near Barberini square, a church rises whose dedication original is to S.Maria of the Conception, but that in Rome he is more known like "the church of the Cappuccini", the friars whose robe has a brown and white hood, from which - strange but true - it's been taken the name of the popular one cappuccino of the bar. Many between Romans and tourists know this single church in virtue of that stranger, in Rome, it can be visited: the old cemetary under the building, a tightened corridor that leads to a series of nails head whose walls and vaulting covered from baroque decorations. But to realize the beautiful figures they didn't use neither filler, neither marbles, but skulls, teeth, long bones,
fingers and whichever other
coming from part give beyond 4.000 skeletons, once Cappuccini friars. The final touch is the maxim of the cemetary, that tells "noi eravamo quello che voi siete, e quello che noi siamo voi sarete" (literally :" we were what you are, and what we are you will be"). To visit the church you have to go to via Vittorio Veneto 27 - open time 9-12 and 15-18. For more, post me. Dblk
Nearly to the end of via Veneto, near Barberini square, a church rises whose dedication original is to S.Maria of the Conception, but that in Rome he is more known like "the church of the Cappuccini", the friars whose robe has a brown and white hood, from which - strange but true - it's been taken the name of the popular one cappuccino of the bar. Many between Romans and tourists know this single church in virtue of that stranger, in Rome, it can be visited: the old cemetary under the building, a tightened corridor that leads to a series of nails head whose walls and vaulting covered from baroque decorations. But to realize the beautiful figures they didn't use neither filler, neither marbles, but skulls, teeth, long bones, 
fingers and whichever other coming from part give beyond 4.000 skeletons, once Cappuccini friars. The final touch is the maxim of the cemetary, that tells "noi eravamo quello che voi siete, e quello che noi siamo voi sarete" (literally :" we were what you are, and what we are you will be"). To visit the church you have to go to via Vittorio Veneto 27 - open time 9-12 and 15-18. For more, post me. Dblk 
SO cool. I really wanted to see this when I was there, I heard about it but I couldn't figure out how to get there (I hardly speak any Italian). Anyhow, very neat. Mind if I link to your site?
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mercoledì, luglio 20, 2005 7:37:00 AM