Monday, January 06, 2014

Church of the Dead (Chiesa dei Morti) - Urbania, Italy





La Chiesa dei Morti, also known as The Church of the Dead, is located in the city of Urbania, Italy. It’s a huge tourist attraction, and the draw is the dead bodies that have been on display there since 1833.
The mummies are the result of a group called “The Brotherhood of Good Death”. The religious group was founded in 1567 and through the ages, took on the task of burying the dead even if there was no one to pay for the burial, they even kept records of the deaths.


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