CAPILLA BUFFO

Guido Buffo was an Italian artist who traveled to Argentina in 1910. 

He has many professions: writer, painter, architect, geologist, biologist, metaphysics,

etc. In 1914 he married with Leonor Allende and had a daughter in 1917.

Guido move to Cordoba, after his wife and daughter get sick of tuberculosis in

1928, in search for a better place to live and fight the illness.

Guido Buffo lost his wife in 1931 and he started building the chapel after the

dead of his daughter in 1941 and it took ten years to finish it. Buffo built the

chapel with his bare hands and it´s made with mud and adobe.

The chapel is located at 7km from Unquillo, Córdoba, in a place known as “Valle de los Quebrachitos”.

The Chapel has the graves of Leonor, Guido, and his daughter. It has ovoidal

shaped in the dome and his heavy wood door. At the right it has a bell tower

that shown as a cross.

In the inside a soft illumination passes though the circular shaped windows

located in the roof that create an atmosphere of intimacy and silence.

The scene is completed by the Buffo´s personal belongings and 3 pendulums.

One of them reproduces the Foucault, a similar install that Guido Buffo made in Paris 

when he was young. 

"The pendulums are used to warn ahead to the earthquakes with 48 or 72 hours of anticipation. The central pendulum is sphere shaped, and its made of bronze, the other two are cylinder shaped with a cone and are made of bronze too" said the guide.

Central Pendulum, made of bronze

The chapel was restored in May 2014; it was renewed on his structure and the interior.

By: Matias Almarcha, Gaston Maydana