Abstract :
In the 16th century, a group of Franciscan monks seized a chance to communicate the inevitability of death and erected a chapel in which one could assume the proper mindset to contemplate one´s own demise. It was with this goal in mind that the Capela dos Ossos (Chapel of Bones) was built in Evora, Portugal, displaying thousands of skulls and bones, as well as two full skeletal corpses, cemented into its walls. Over the years, the chapel has become a popular tourist attraction, serving as a macabre monument to transitory life.
