Why this picture? Because its the only one we were allowed to take on our visit to our next stop: the Catacombs of the Cappucine Monastery. This is the entrance and the exit. 

The Catacombs feature hundreds of corpses that have been preserved in various states - from a skeleton to life-like appearances.  The monastery developed a secret way of preserving bodies and once the secret got out they were flooded with requests for "eternal life".  The bodies are mostly suspended from the walls, although some are in glass caskets. They are all dressed in the clothes in which they were "buried".  The list includes monks, bishops, priests and people of all walks of life. There's a special section for children, too.

The last corpse to be preserved is that of a two year old girl who died in 1920.  She still appears so life like that locals call her Sleeping Beauty.  Her name was Rosalia Lombardo.  Tim's mother, no relation that we know of, was named Rose Lombardo. 

When a certain expresso drink was invented which featured a sprinkle of cinnamon on top of its foam, the Italian people said that the color of the cinnamon was the same brown color of the robes of the Cappucine Monks. They started calling the expresso drink Little Cappucine or in Italian - cappuccino.