Évora - Casa dos Ossos

Adjoining the south aisle of the Igreja Real de Sao Francisco is the Casa dos Ossos, a 17th C. charnel house. Those of a more sensitive disposition should think twice before venturing inside, since the walls are formed by carefully arranged layers of human bones. The macabre effect is heightened by the skeletons of a man and a child hanging from this gruesome wall, and to top it all the motto over the door reads "our bones that lie within are waiting for yours to join them".