CHAPEL OF BONES - PORTUGAL

My freind Vanessa has recently come back from Portugal. We spent an hour today at work looking at her travel photo's when we got to her Portugal photo's I was extremely intrigued.

Apparently while she was in Evora Portugal she decided to drag all her friends to the chapel of bones. At first I thought she was mucking around with me but then when I saw the photo's I was left in shock!

This chapel basically built from human skulls and bones is a tourist attraction. Who the hell donates their bones to be used as a chapel. Don't theses bones eventually become old and disgusting?

My next question to her was if you donate your head to be used in the chapel do you get to write your name on it? If my head was going to be displayed as art in a chapel I would want everyone knowing that it's my bloody head.

Infact I was so disgusted at first about this chapel that now I am inspired to head over to Portugal to get my own photo's. Imagine being surrounded in a room filled with skulls and human bones attached to the walls.

Who's sick idea was this?

Photo - The walls of the Chapel made from human bones

Picture - A dead body hanging from the roof of the chapel

Picture - Close up of the skulls on the walls in the Chapel