Fontanelle Cemetery is an old cemetery in the city of Naples in via Fontanelle. Cemetery hosts remains of 40.000 people, victims of Great Plague in 1656 and cholera in 1836. Cemetery is well known because there was held a special rite, called "anime pezzentelle" (poor souls), which provided for the adoption and the accommodation for protection of a skull ("capuzzella"), to which corresponded an abandoned soul. It is located at the western end of Sanità, one of the richest districts of Naples in history and tradition, just off Greek-Roman town, in the area chosen for pagan necropolis and later to Christian cemeteries. The site keeps for at least four centuries the remains of those who could not afford a proper burial and is dug in the tufa rock of Materdei hill. It consists of three large galleries, called "nave" and connected by lateral corridors. There are many legends and rumors related to the place and "capuzzelle", first of all, that of Donna Concetta: the peculiarity of this skull, placed inside a glass case, is its polishing. While other skulls are covered with dust, the latter is rather polished miraculously.

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