Mausoleo de Francisco Villa en Chihuahua, Mexican Revolution monument in downtown Chihuahua, Mexico

The Mausoleo de Francisco Villa is a funerary chapel of pink cantera stone in a neoclassical style with neo-Gothic details, carved reliefs and sculpted trophies on its exterior. A crypt lies underground, with the chapel standing above it. Stonemason Santos Vega built it in about a year, working without a fixed design from Villa.

This structure was built between 1914 and 1915 under stonemason Santos Vega's direction, serving as a cenotaph since Villa's actual remains are buried in Parral. When surrounding cemetery buildings were demolished in 1957, this monument was preserved as a standalone memorial.

The chapel's name recalls the legend of stonemason Santos Vega, who built it without a design brief after Villa's ambiguous warning that it had better please him. When Villa inspected the finished work he reportedly said: "You know what? I like it a lot." The site is also called Capilla de Villa.

The mausoleum stands inside the Parque de la Revolución, the former Panteón de la Regla cemetery razed in 1957; only Villa's chapel was kept. The park also holds a hemicycle inscribed with the names of revolutionary leaders of every faction, so the chapel can be seen together with it in one visit.

Villa's head vanished after his grave in Parral was profaned; his widow Bertha Rentería claimed she had the body swapped so the bones moved to Mexico City in 1976 may not be his. The chapel stayed empty, and in 2013 protesters ringed it to stop a plan to move it before the government palace.