Fontanelle cemetery
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The Fontanelle cemetery in Naples is an ossuary in a cave carved out of a tuff cliff in the city's Materdei region. It is situated in the Sanità , one of Naples' most historically and culturally significant neighborhoods. It is the unofficial final resting place of such plague victims.
Experts estimate the death toll from the 1656 plague to be 150,000, or half of Naples' population. The victims died and were buried (or thrown into a cave) in the most chaotic circumstances, frequently without last rituals and nearly invariably without burial markers. As a result, it took decades for the city to recover from the consequences of the outbreak.The Fontanelle cemetery became the unofficial final resting place of the many anonymous victims and remains of cultural importance to Naples' history.
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