Vatican Chapels

The Pavilion was built on the occasion of the first participation of the Holy See in the Architecture Biennale; ten architects - from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, USA, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Chile, Serbia and Paraguay - were called by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi to each build a chapel, starting from the model of the "chapel in the woods ”By Gunnar Asplund, built in 1920 in the Stockholm cemetery. The result is precisely the Vatican Chapels, new and unprecedented models, placed in a natural and abstract environment, and now on permanent display in the woods of the Giorgio Cini Foundation.