San Bernardino alle Ossa

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Via Carlo Giuseppe Merlo, 1, 20122 Milano, Italy

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N45° 27' 45.19" E9° 11' 44.2"   (45.462552777778, 9.1956111111111) Start navigation »

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San Bernardino alle Ossa is a church in Milan, northern Italy, best known for its ossuary, a small side chapel decorated with numerous human skulls and bones.

In 1210, when an adjacent cemetery ran out of space, a room was built to hold bones. A church was attached in 1269. Renovated in 1679, it was destroyed by a fire in 1712. A new bigger church was then attached to the older one and dedicated to Saint Bernardino of Siena.

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