Buffo Chapel

Buffo Chapel

Buffo Chapel is situated in Argentina, in the province of Cordoba, in the town of Unquillo. Buffo Chapel has been built on top of a mountain of medium height, surrounded by an area with dense vegetation. Its a gravestone chapel dedicated  to the  memory of his wife Leonor and his daughter, Eleonora

The chapel was built in 1941, and it took nine years finish.

35 steps separate the entrance to a clearing made in the mountains. Its architecture is developed from the form of cocoons. For acoustics,  he thought the sound it feels like to invest a sea snail

The primary building is made of mud, in the case of walls; and thatched roof. 

The Chapel was built in 1941, and it took nine years finish, in 1950.

The Chapel was built it by Guido Buffo

Buffo was born in Italy, Treviso, on March 12, 1885, he studied in Paris, Turin, Venice. He

arrived in Argentina in 1910 and settled in the mountains of Cordoba.

The Municipality of Unquillo invest half a million pesos in the recovery of the chapel through

a contract signed with the Cordoba Agency of Culture, renewed in 2013.