Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini

Santa Maria Immacolata a Via Veneto or Our Lady of the Conception dei Cappuccini is the name of a church building in Rome.

The church was built at the instigation of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, brother of Pope Urban VIII, according to plans by Antonio Casoni in the years 1626 to 1631 and is located on Via Veneto near Piazza Barberini. It is still one of a Capuchin monastery. In the crypt there is an ossuary.

The ossuary made ​​the church famous because there is not only stored until 1870, hundreds of skeletons, but were artistically processed. In six, by a common corridor connected spaces skull, pelvic bones, vertebrae and shoulder blades to wall decorations, flowers, and biblical representations were arranged. Particularly noteworthy is a completely manufactured from bone chandelier hanging from the ceiling of the room.

Visit the crypt is possible in the connected Capuchin Museum admission fee.

Gallery

Details of the crypt

Interior of the crypt

Grave stone of Antonio Barberini, the founder of the Church