Some pictures from the 'bone chapel' in the small Algarve village of Alcantarilha here:
The 'bone chapel' can be found somewhere round the back/side of the church below:
To get to the 'bone chapel' my friend, Dave Dealy, lead us on a 2-3 mile walk from the Algarve seaside setting of Porches to Alcantirilha:
From some of these pictures, the chapel, containing about 1,500 human remains, may look a bit 'gruesome', but in the place itself it was in no way morbid:
In reality, the place is only a small side chapel which helps to negate any sense of the place being morbid:
But still there is no getting away from the fact that the place is made from human skulls and bones:
However, in the village of Alcantarilha itself, there didn't seem to be much else other than the interesting red building below:
And a couple of other churches:
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