Sacrario ai Caduti di Kindu
The Sacrario ai Caduti di Kindu is a Catholic chapel in Pisa dedicated to thirteen Italian aviators killed in Kindu, Congo, during a humanitarian mission in November 1961. The project originated after the Defense Ministry, aided by Rai, decided to memorialize the event near Pisa’s military airport from which the doomed flight departed. In early 1962, the Pistoiese architect Giovanni Michelucci was commissioned to shape the monument, exploring designs that ranged from a raised sacred plinth with the memorial as a crypt to a rugged landscape of rock-cut tombs and caverns. Economic constraints led to a dramatic simplification: the project was reduced to a votive chapel, with a push for liturgical practicality and clarity. …
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