Church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini

The Church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, built between 1626 and 1631 by order of Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) to house the tomb of his brother Antonio Barberini. The building houses a popular crypt-shrine decorated with the bones of about 4000 Capuchin friars, collected between 1528 and 1870 in the former cemetery of the Capuchin order, which was located in the church of Santa Croce e Bonaventura dei Lucchesi, near the Quirinale.

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