Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture - Episode 2: Death

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Episode 2: Death
The historian and writer explores cities, buildings and monuments linked by the theme of death. He reveals the tale of a chapel decorated with human bones in the Czech Republic and views the Yaxha Mayan pyramids, Guatemalan sites of human sacrifice. He also visits the spectacular Staglieno cemetery in Genoa, Italy, and takes a trip to Varanasi, a sacred town on the banks of the Ganges where people go to die

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