In 1210, a small chamber was built next to the Hospital of Santo Stefano to house the bones exhumed from the now-full cemetery; today, the ossuary of San Bernardino alle Ossa captivates thousands of visitors with its walls entirely covered in skulls and human remains
It is said that every November 2, a little girl makes the skeletons preserved in one of Milan’s most unusual churches dance. Discover the legend and how to enter the San Bernardino ossuary on that day....