Thursday, May 19, 2016

Buffo Chapel

It is located seven kilometers from the central of Unquillo. in the Sierras Chicas.
It is 31 km to Unquillo from the  city of Córdoba.


It was built from 1941 to 1950 to bury his family.
It is a brick structure with classical forms linked to a metaphysical vision, the 35 steps separate the entrance to a clearing made in the mountains. The dome has an oval shape. The chapel is flower shaped. It has walls of adobe and mud, has got a cross shaped structure.

Its builder was Guido Buffo, he was born In Italy on 12 March 1885, he studied in Paris and he arrived in Argentina in 1910. He lived in Buenos Aires and the bought a place in the Quebrachitos
If it was rebuilt in 2013.
Its architecture is shaped like a blossom. Inside the chapel the sound of a sea snail is heard

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