“On November 30, 1897, the Government of the General Porfirio Díazthrough the Ministry of Communications and Public Works, it summons the contest for the Construction of the Federal Legislative Palace. Sixty proposals are received, including Boari under the pseudonym S. Georgios Equitum Patronos in Tempestate Securitas. Although he does not win, he obtains the 'first second place', and his name is announced in Mexico, a land he will emigrate to work, ”said the Architect and author Jorge Vásquez Ángeles In the article «Azares and coincidences of architect Adamo Boari”(Magazine of the Metropolitan Autonomous University, 2017). With this contest and subsequent orders, Adamo Boari arrived in Mexico.
Project for the scape temple of Guadalajara, 1898. Elita Boari Collection / Courtesy of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (Inbal)
Basilica of the Blessed Sacrament
After the World Fair, Boari received the commission of building the Basilica of the Blessed Sacramentknown as the Exiatory temple in Guadalajaraby the Archbishop of Guadalajara. Boari took as a reference the Orvieto Cathedral, in the Italian Umbría, although its design differentiated in the four -bodies bell tower, culminated with great pinnacle and a clock.
The temple began to be built in August 1897, with its French interiors and their Italian -style exteriors that they achieved one of the great Mexican neo -Gothic buildings, made of carved stone; However, the works stopped in 1911 due to the Mexican Revolution And the building resumed and ended 75 years later with the architect Ignacio Díaz Morales at the head. It is also considered A reference of the neo -Gothic style in Mexico.
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Dome of the temple of San Miguel
In 1899, Boari presented a project for the Sanctuary of the Virgen del Carmen in Atotonilco El Altoof which a copy of the plane is preserved in the Historical Archive of the Archbishopric of Guadalajaraand reveals the inspiration in the Spanish Gothic. The project was never carried out. However, the Italian would have the opportunity to intervene in Atotonilco El Alto.