A large crypt houses the remains of some of the earlier Prussian royal family.

The Louvre Palace ( Palais du Louvre ) which houses the museum was begun as a fortress by Philip II in the 12th century, with remnants of this building still visible in the crypt.

The crypt houses a sepulchre containing the remains of St. Fortunatus of Todi and other saints, as well as the tomb of Jacopone da Todi.

The crypt houses the tombs of the bishops of Bobbio, and the chapel of Saint Antonio Maria Gianelli, bishop of Bobbio.

The 11th century crypt houses the remains of the former Romanesque cathedral.

The crypt has some of the most ancient mural paintings in France, and houses the tomb of the bishops of Auxerre.

Though the monks were displaced by the canons of the bishop of Trier between 859 and 971, and although Willibrord's buildings burned down in 1017, the Romanesque basilica, with its symmetrical towers, to this day houses Willibrord's tomb in its crypt.

A crypt just inside the north entrance houses the tomb of James Smithson.

While little remains of the Radziwiłł castle, the crypt of the Calvinist church ( 1631 ) houses the family mausoleum, including the tombs of Krzysztof Radziwiłł and his son Janusz.

The cathedral houses a crypt, where three of Victoria's former Bishops are interred:

" (" Darkness, silence, an icy chill, and the cavernous depth of the soil combine to make these houses a kind of crypt, tombs of the living.

The Neo-Romanesque crypt houses a 16th century image of the Virgen de la Almudena.

These houses were used specifically for mortuary services and, although they required many more resources to build and maintain than a crypt, they were widely used.

Jacob's Well has since been restored and a new church modelled along the designs of the Crusader era church, houses the well inside of it, in a crypt on a lower level.

The Monumento has three parts: the Tower ( Torre ) or mast, 70 metres high, which commemorates the Revolution of May 1810 and houses Manuel Belgrano's crypt in its base ; the Civic Courtyard ( Patio Cívico ), which symbolizes the effort of the organization of the state ( the Courtyard is used for massive open-air shows ), and the Triumphal Propylaeum ( Propileo Triunfal ), representing the Nation as organized after the 1853 Constitution.

The crypt of the cathedral houses the remains of thousands of people of all ranks.

In the interior are a pergamum, with interesting parts from the original of the 12th century, and a 14th century Crucifix of Giotto's school, while the crypt houses a noteworthy Roman sarcophagus.

Roman sarcophagus containing the relics of Albertus Magnus in the crypt of St. Andreas church in Cologne, Germany

Since November 15, 1954, his relics are in a Roman sarcophagus in the crypt of the Dominican St. Andreas church in Cologne.

In 1482 the relics were placed in a new shrine and laid beneath the altar of the crypt.

A crypt and relics said to be John's and mentioned in 11th and 16th century manuscripts, were discovered in 1969 during restoration of the Church of St. Macarius at the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes, Egypt ; Additional relics are claimed to reside in Gandzasar Monastery's Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in Nagorno Karabakh ;

The crypt of the original abbey church still holds those relics, but the church itself has been subsumed into a Baroque renovation.

The Basilica di San Nicola ( Saint Nicholas ) was founded in 1087 to receive the relics of this saint, which were brought from Myra in Lycia, and now lie beneath the altar in the crypt, where are buried the Topins, which are a legacy of old thieves converted to good faith.

The cathedral contains a tomb in its crypt that it maintains still holds a portion of the relics of the apostle.

One major exception to this scheme is the presence of large statues of St Modesta ( a local martyr ) and St Potentian on the north west corner of the porch, close to a small doorway where pilgrims visiting the crypt ( where their relics were stored ) would once have emerged blinking into the light.

In the adjoining crypt is the grave of Saint Cecilia, whose relics were removed by Pope Paschal I in 821: the early 9th century frescoes on the walls represent Saint Cecilia praying, the bust of the Redeemer and Pope Urban I.

In architecture, a crypt ( from the Latin crypta and the Greek κρύπτη, kryptē ; meaning concealed, private ) is a stone chamber or vault beneath the floor of a burial vault possibly containing sarcophagi, coffins or relics.

After the 10th century the early medieval requirements of a crypt faded, as church officials permitted relics to be held in the main level of the church.

The crypt, on the Greek cross plan, has 108 Romanesque small columns and is home to the relics of Saint Justine, to which the first cathedral ( crumbled down in 1117 after an earthquake ) was dedicated.

Abbot Suger removed the relics of Denis, and those associated with Rustique and Eleuthére, from the crypt to reside under the high altar of the Saint-Denis he rebuilt, 1140-44.

Today the crypt, known as the Museum of Fleet Street, is open to the public and contains a number of ancient relics including Roman coins and medieval stained glass.

Its patrons were the chapter of cathedral ( led by a Dean ), the Archbishop Arnost of Pardubice, and, above all, Charles IV, King of Bohemia and a soon-to-be Holy Roman Emperor, who intended the new cathedral to be a coronation church, family crypt, treasury for the most precious relics of the kingdom, and the last resting place cum pilgrimage site of patron saint Wenceslaus.

The crypt, built on the house of St. Silvia, holds the relics of St. Sabas.

Pope Alexander IV ( 1254 – 1261 ), former bishop of Velletri, ordered during his pontificate to bring the relics of Velletri holy martyrs Pontian and Eleuterio to be preserved in the crypt beneath the cathedral.

It was consecrated on 8 December 806 ; two local hermits, Benignus and Carus, were assigned the task of translating Zeno ’ s relics to a new marble crypt.

Edith loved the town and often lived there ; at her death she was buried in the crypt of the Benedictine abbey of Saint Maurice, later rebuilt as the cathedral.

His remains were to be buried in the crypt of Saint Peter's Basilica on the feast day of Our Lady of Fátima, 13 October 1958.

Saint Boniface crypt, Fulda

They based their new basilica on the original 4th-century ( since demolished ) Old Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, using the transept and crypt plan of that great pilgrimage church to frame their own saint as the " Apostle to the Germans ".

* Duomo ( Cathedral of Saint Vigilius ), a Romanesque-Gothic cathedral of the twelfth-thirteenth century, built on top of a late-Roman basilica ( viewable in an underground crypt ).

At Henry's death in 1807, Charles's remains were moved to the crypt of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican where they were laid to rest next to those of his brother and his father.

Begun under the direction of the Countess Matilda of Tuscany with its first stone laid June 6, 1099 and its crypt ready for the city's patron, Saint Geminianus, and consecrated only six years later, the Duomo of Modena was finished in 1184.

After the close of the exposition, a benefactor purchased the entire chapel for installation in the crypt of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York in New York City.

During restoration work in the 1870s, the crypt which had been closed since the Reformation was refurbished and opened as a chapel, and Saint Canute once more went on display.

Dijon boasts a large number of churches, notably Notre Dame de Dijon, St. Philibert, St. Michel, Dijon Cathedral, the crypt of which, dedicated to Saint Benignus, dates from 1, 000 years ago.

The cathedral was constructed over the crypt of a former Visigothic chapel, dedicated to Saint James, which was the proprietary church of the Viscounts of Barcelona, one of whom, Mir Geribert, sold the site to Bishop Guislebert in 1058.

The body of Saint Eulalia is entombed in the cathedral's crypt.

* Works for the Duomo, Florence, including the high altar and its Adam and Eve ( 1551 ), now in the Bargello and Pietà now in the crypt of Santa Croce ; much-praised bas-reliefs made for the enclosure of the choir, designed by the architect Giuliano di Baccio d ' Angnolo ( 1555 ), now in the Museo dell ' Opera del Duomo ; Saint Peter, one of eight apostles by various sculptors in the piers of the crossing.

It is also around this time that the church of Saint Guido was rebuilt above the earlier Romanesque crypt in the Brabant Gothic style.

Like all 15 Habsburg empresses before her, her body was buried in the crypt, but her heart was sent to the Augustinian Church, where she was married, and her internal organs were placed in the crypt of the Metropolitan Church of Saint Stephen.

The most noteworthy part of the Cathedral is its crypt, which contains the tomb of Saint Magnus of Anagni, the patron saint of Anagni, and Saint Secundina of Anagni.

On the same level as the crypt is the Oratorio of Saint Thomas ( Becket )- also completely frescoed though the works are not in as good condition as those in the crypt.

This catacomb's most ancient parts are the crypt of Lucina, the region of the Popes and the region of Saint Cecilia, where some of the most sacred memories of the place are preserved ( including the crypt of the Popes, the crypt of Saint Cecilia, and the crypt of the Sacraments ); the other regions are named the region of Saint Gaius and the region of Saint Eusebius ( end of the 3rd century ), West region ( built in the first half of the 4th century ) and the Liberian region ( second half of the 4th century ), all showing grandiose underground architecture.