Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ashes will be kept in a family mausoleum that he built in his villa in Arcore, a northern town, a family source said.

He will have a state funeral today and then his body will be cremated at a temple near Alessandria. Berlusconi, who died on Monday aged 86, commissioned sculptor Pietro Cascella to create the mausoleum in the early 1990s.

He wanted to bury himself, his relatives and friends there, but the law only allows public cemeteries for bodies, his friend and art critic Vittorio Sgarbi told AdnKronos.

The mausoleum is a white marble building with an underground crypt. A sarcophagus for Berlusconi is at the center and a frieze of chains symbolizing family unity is on the walls.