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Built following a competition announced in 1854, the Famedio by the architect Leone Savoja is an important testimony in the field of 19th-century monumental funerary architecture. Inaugurated in 1872, the Famedio had not yet been completed when, in 1908, an earthquake damaged several parts of it. Since then, the Famedio has remained as a ruin in the funerary landscape of the cemetery. The reconstruction process, started on the basis of the plan kept at the Damiani Almeida archive in Palermo, was verified thanks to the execution of a digital survey of the surviving structures. After the survey has been carried out, first phase saw the redrawing of the building. The plans, elevations, sections were drawn and the architectural details were studied in 2D. The next phase involved the three-dimensional modeling of the structure. In the contribution presented here, the images relating to the three-dimensional model modelled in a CAD are presented for the first time; some images relating to the analogue model printed in 3D during public exhibition occasions are also shown.