These are the underground crypts where during the last 200 years monks and some magnates(generous donors) were buried. There can be also seen a body of Napoleonic soldier, who died in Krakow during the army’s marsh across the Europe. Thanks to a unique micro climate the corpses are well preserved, bodies are exposed to the visitors which are allowed to enter the crypt only on few special dates during the year.
Reformed Franciscan Church cemetery
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This place should be rather called a crypt than a cemetery as it is just small room located under the presbytery of Camaldolese temple at Bielany, where the remains of monks are kept. The hermitage and the crypt exist since the XVII century. In each monk’s cell there is a
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