- Art & Culture
CAPPELLA ESPIATORIA
The Chapel stands on the spot where on July 29, 1900, anarchist Gaetano Bresci killed King Umberto I of Savoy at the end of a sporting event. Heir and successor Victor Emmanuel III commissioned architect Giuseppe Sacconi, creator of the Altare della Patria in Rome, to design a memorial building rich in symbolic elements, which was inaugurated in 1910.
Above the column are in fact a bronze Pieta, large alabaster crosses and the symbols of the kingdom, including the scepter and crown.
A mosaic-decorated chapel is carved into the base of the column, while below is a crypt in which a black marble memorial stone marks the point of the attack.
The project was probably approved by the Regina Margherita. Indeed, the decorative apparatus does not lack the daisy motif, her hallmark.
The same motif is repeated in the large gate by Alessandro Mazzucotelli, an internationally renowned "ornamental blacksmith," that borders the area.
Opening hours
FREE ADMISSION
Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday: 9am-2pm (last admission 1:30pm)
Friday and Saturday: 9am-7pm (last admission 6pm.30).
First and third Thursdays extend opening hours until 7 p.m. (last entry 6:30 p.m.
On the following Saturdays and Sundays in December and January 2025/26, the Cappella Espiatoria will be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, 13 December 2025
Saturday, 27 December 2025
Saturday, 3 January 2026
Saturday, 10 January 2026
Saturday, 17 January 2026
Saturday, 31 January 2026
Closures:
- January 1 and December 25
