The chapel with the ossuary has stood at the cemetery by the present parish church of St. Kancijan since the 13th century. The benefice of the ossuary chapel was managed by the noble family Egkh of Brdo near Predoslje at the end of the 15th century. During the reforms of Joseph II (1789) the cemetery by the church was abandoned and moved to another site (see Prešeren’s grove), and the ossuary chapel was demolished. After years of archaeological excavations from 1970 to 1975 and in 1984 and after endeavours to present the finds, today the ossuary is arranged by the architectural remains of a lateantique baptistery. The key to the ossuary, hidden under the pavement of the square behind the Church of St. Kancijan, is kept at the reception of the Gorenjska museum in the City Hall.

Address: alongside the Church of St. Kancijan and Companions, Glavni trg, Kranj.

Opening hours: upon previous arrangement with the Gorenjska museum. Entrance is free.

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