Saturday, May 21, 2016


The chapel  buffo

The buffo chapel is situated, in 7km from Unquillo.
It was built between 1941 and 1950 because he wants to build grave for his wife and daughter.
The chapel was built as gift for god, feeling and intellect.  It has got brick adobe structure and its ceiling has got windows of illumination.
The construction lasted nine years.
It was built by Guido Buffo, Guido Buffo was born in Italy in 1885; he was philosopher, painter, writer, musician, astronomer, metaphysical, biologist and geologist. In1914 he married Eleonor  Allende in Cordoba  and he had a daughter. His wife died by tuberculosis and ten years later his daughter suffered the same. Buffo wanted to built the chapel in Unquillo and finally, he died in 1960.
In 2013 it was restored by Marcela Mammana and Jose Javier Correa.
Do ovoide shape alloesa best acoustics, also has cross carved as bell tower.
In the access has thirty five steps loading to a place mad in the mountain, the door of the chapel is wooden and has shape ojival. Inside try to copy the picture eden. In that place they would be waiting for their loved ones.

Visit to the caplilla of buffo

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