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Address Via Matteo da Campione 7 / a, 20900 Monza MB, Italy Hours Closed now Friday9AM–2PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosedMondayClosedTuesday9AM–2PMWednesdayClosedThursdayClosed Province Province of Monza and Brianza Similar Santa Maria in Strada - M, Arengario, Ponte dei Leoni, Museo e tesoro del duomo di, Monza Cathedral | ||
The Expiatory Chapel in Monza is a monument-chapel built to atone and commemorate the site at which the king Humbert I was murdered in July 29, 1900, by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci. It stands near the entrance to the Royal Villa of Monza on Viale Regina Margherita and Via Matteo da Campione. Humbert’s son Vittorio Emanuele III commissioned the aged architect Giuseppe Sacconi, and the work was completed by his pupil Guido Cirilli, and completed in 1910. Obelisk-like crosses emerge from a stone chapel, and are surmounted by bronze crown and royal symbols of the House of Savoy. The entrance is surmounted by a Pieta 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.