The Expiatory Chapel in Monza, Italy was commissioned by Umberto's son, Vittorio Emanuele III, following the King's assassination by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci on July 29, 1900. The chapel stands near the entrance to the Royal Villa of Monza in Via Matteo da Campione.
Commissioned by the aged architect Giuseppe Sacconi, the work was completed by his pupil Guido Cirilli in 1910. Obelisk-like crosses emerge from the stone chapel and are surmounted by a bronze crown and royal symbols of the House of Savoy. The entrance is surmounted by a Pietà by the sculptor Lodovico Pogliaghi.
There is another such expiatory chapel to atone for a regicide, the Chapelle expiatoire in Paris, built to atone for the execution of Louis XVI.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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