abbazia della sacra di san michele 🗺

A 33 minute train ride out of Torino Porta Nuova train station and you arrive at S. Ambrogio from where there is a 3 km walk uphill to the monastery Sacra di San Michele - a landmark of Piedmonte and of Italy. The abbey is dedicated to the archangel with the same name whose followers apparently like building places of worship on hard-to-reach places - like steep mountain tops. (Or that island on the north coast of France….) The construction of the abbey started in the 10th century and seems to have had its most important days in the first couple of centuries ran by benedectines. It was then left abandoned in the 17th century and only repopulated in 1835 by the then new Rosminian order. Read more on the site and on wikipedia.

Elio Pallard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

written by fredrik at 2021-11-02