Rome, August 24 - (Adnkronos) - The contract of a diaphragm buried alive, the broken neck of a hanged man, the gash of a knife stabbing: agendas for all lovers of the macabre can not 'miss a visit to the museum of the mummies of Urbania, near Pesaro and Urbino. A crypt, the behind the altar of the little church of the Dead, that 'can accommodate 20 onlookers at a time, but receives about 14 thousand visitors a year, "says the head of the Tourism and Culture in Urbania, Tarcisio Cleri, ADNKRONOS. A gallery
oval niches where they sleep, disturbed by the numerous visitors, 16 naturally mummified bodies eighteenth century, that over the skeletal structure have preserved the skin, organs, and in some cases, hair and nails and genitalia. "They are like paper mache figures, completely dried - Cleri explains -. Some are well preserved, others less so. Until a few years the most 'adventurous could even touch them. Now there mummies to protect' a glass." The corpses I'm not the only attraction, to decorate the crypt, also, 150 skulls and a chandelier of skulls and bones. The Curious
museum unguarded, pero ', only the 16 mummies, but their stories that the caretaker tells visitors: that of the prior of the brotherhood of Vincenzo Piccini' Good Death 'and that of the humanist Sebastiano Macci pregnant woman died of a caesarean sections to cross, such as those that were made at that time and that it 'clearly visible. Among the stories most 'horrifying the man who was buried in a state of suspended animation and wakes up' in the grave and dell'accoltellato in his side during a vigil dancing.
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