Bone chapel, Faro

We visited the creepy Capela dos Ossos in Faro. It’s a chapel made with the bones of 1000 Carmelite monks. There was a motorcycle festival in town so we visited the chapel with a bunch of bickies in their leather jackets covered in skulls and cross bones which added to the eeriness of the chapel. There wasn’t a lot of information available so our minds were running wild with how they got the monks bones and how long it would’ve take to progressively build the chapel as each monk died.

(We later found out that the monks were exhumed when they ran of space in the cemetery. )

We went to a local supermarket to stock up on supplies for the boat and had a delicious lunchLeer más