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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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