On the occasion of the Jubilee 2025 in Rome, the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici presents the exhibition Shared Sacred Places from October 9, 2025 to January 19, 2026. The exhibition brings together significant works from French, Italian, and Vatican collections in dialogue with contemporary creations. From Gentile da Fabriano to Marc Chagall, passing through Le Corbusier, the exhibition aims to highlight, through works of art, a little-known but very present religious phenomenon in the Mediterranean: the shared sacred places by followers of different religions.

To each their own God, their scriptures, their saints. However, from the origins, ritual practices, founding stories, protective figures, and shared sacred spaces intertwine within the three great monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The exhibition Shared Sacred Places explores specific cases in which different religious practices and communities intersect and coexist. Often hidden in the West, this phenomenon reveals the historical, cultural, spiritual, and artistic interactions that have shaped these religions and societies in the Mediterranean basin.

Ten years after its debut at the Mucem in Marseille and an international journey, Shared Sacred Places lands at Villa Medici in a renewed form, thanks to exceptional loans from the Vatican Museums, the Louvre Museum, the Mucem - Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, the MAXXI, and also from the Jewish Museum of Rome. The exhibition is an invitation to travel through different landscapes (cities, seas, gardens, caves, and mountains) that foster the sharing of the sacred. It thus highlights intertwining and common heritages, drawing a spiritual geography where traditions, dialogues, and artistic creations blend.

The exhibition Shared Sacred Places was conceived and produced by the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici, the Mucem, and the French Embassy in Rome at the Holy See - the French establishments in Rome and Loreto, starting from the original exhibition at the Mucem. The exhibition benefited from the scientific advice of the Vatican Museums and the Jewish Museum of Rome.