The cemetery turned cave is not only interesting but unusual and bizarre since a place like this is unlikely to be found anywhere else in the world. It is situated under many layers of dirt in Sanita, Naples is this charnel house, a Golgotha, an ossuary, filled with a vast collection of skeleton remains dating years back in history. Though back in the Roman Empire era, the area close to this region to the north was accustomed to rituals and death, even though they had their own carved out cavern, nothing like the Fontanelle cemetery caves.
The occupation of these cemeteries started once when the Spanish settled in by the early 1500s, they soon were to be encountered by the problem where to bury their dead, options arose of burying them outskirts or the city but this did not sit well with the Neapolitans since they wanted to be interred by the churches which they had been worshipping in for many years. Therefore undertakers started to make space for the new burials and shifted the old dead outside the city which one day would be known as the Fontanelle cemetery. More anonymous bodies were to be followed after this creation by the 1656, great year of plague of that century. It was estimated that 40,000 bodies were incinerated in the caves.
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