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The Chapel of the Holy Shroud is Guarino Guarini's 17th-century masterpiece, a virtuoso exercise in baroque geometry that once housed the Shroud of Turin. Its extraordinary nested-dome structure — built of dark marble and dramatically lit from hidden windows — is unlike anything else in European architecture.
Commissioned by Carlo Emanuele II to house the Holy Shroud, Guarini designed the chapel between 1668 and 1694. The revolutionary dome influenced baroque architecture across Europe. On 11 April 1997 a fire caused catastrophic damage; the chapel reopened to the public in 2018 after one of Italy's most complex restorations.