The San Giovanni in Val di Lago rests on the ruins of a medieval church and it’s pilgrimage route, Via Francigena. The route connects England, France, Switzerland and Italy with the Holy Land. As planners, we seek to revisit the relationship of the chapel and it’s constituents by fortifying spaces for pilgrimage within the newly-roofed chapel’s presence. The tectonic nature of the San Giovanni leaves behind traces of mason’s work from rugged edges of unfinished mortar to exposed faces of stacked stone. The reutilization of the site as a cultural center could pay homage to the old while also establishing a new language of tectonics with new technologies. Serving as an extension and refortification of the chapels tectonics and motifs, a rugged masonry arcade is extruded from the back of the church