CATACOMBS OF THE CAPPUCCINOS

The catacombs of the Capuchins in Palermo, Sicily (Italy) is home to one of the museums most creepy and unique in the world.

The catacombs date from 1599 when it was buried for the first time a monk with a reputation for Holy so it was prayed and visited, the brother Silvestro de Gúbio. Thus the monks discovered the special climatic conditions that meet the catacombs.

This was slowly becoming a local tradition, to the point that many left instructions in his will regarding the clothes that look after dead and even which should put past time. So you were gathering approximately a total of 8,000 corpses that are exposed as if it were a gallery of death. Many were stuffed with different methods.

They are exposed in rows in men, women, children, virgins, monks and professionals. In the Hall of the professional judges, professors, military some even buried their military clothes can find Napoleonic style. Many of the bodies have been deformed by the passage of time or have lost some of its members.

Some of the bodies were wrapped in straw-filled bag fabrics, which helped its dewatering and removal of moisture and fungus that had appeared. Also during the second world war there was damage caused by the fire of some vaults, because of which some corpses were the action of fire. In 1966, there was another fire that had greater consequences and later due to the paving of the neighboring streets, water leaks appeared.