At the Cemetery of the Fountains in Naples there is a free guided tour to discover the capuzzelle, the pezzentelle souls and the legends of the place.
Update: reservations are sold out.
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Saturday October 20 2018 there will be one free guided tour al Cemetery of the Fontanelle a Napoli thanks to the organization of two historical associations in the area: “IRIS Fontanelle” and “I Care Fontanelle”. These two associations offer one free visit per month so that citizens and tourists can discover a historical and very suggestive place of the city.
You will know the legends that hide behind many of the capuzzelle present in the Fontanelle Cemetery, but also stories e devotions of the people who, with his rites, created traditions and superstitions. Among these, the most famous is the rite of the pezzentelle souls which involved the adoption of a skull by a member of the people to receive protection in exchange. Each skull corresponded an abandoned soul (the so-called capuzzella) that needed, in fact, to be adopted and looked after.
The free guided tour will be a walk to discover these large spaces dug into the tuff and in which thousands of skulls and bones pile up, preserved in the three large galleries.
La reservation is mandatory specifying, to the contacts indicated at the end of the article, name, surname, number of participants and emails.
