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Saint Michael's Abbey (Sacra di San Michele), Sant'ambrogio di Torino, Piedmont, Italy

The Sacra di San Michele, or more properly the abbey of San Michele della Chiusa, locally also called the Sagra di San Michele, is an architectural complex perched on the summit of Mount Pirchiriano, at the entrance to the Val di Susa, in the metropolitan city of Turin, in Piedmont, in the territories of the municipalities of Sant'Ambrogio di Torino and Chiusa di San Michele, just above the hamlet of San Pietro. Located on an imposing base of 26 meters at 960 meters above sea level , overlooking the top of Mount Pirchiriano on the border between the Cottian Alps and the Po Valley, it is the symbolic monument of Piedmont and one of the the most eminent religious architectures of this Alpine territory, belonging to the diocese of Susa, the first stop in the Italian territory of the Via Francigena. From the twelfth to the fifteenth century it lived the period of its maximum historical splendor, becoming one of the main centers of Benedictine spirituality in Italy. In the nineteenth century the congregation of the Rosminian fathers was established there. In 2015, the site was one of the winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments worldwide photo contest. In 2016, the museum of the abbey monumental complex was visited by over 100,000 people. On the night of January 24, 2018, the Old Monastery of the Sacra suffered extensive damage following a fire on the roof, without impacting the architecturally most important part, which needs major restorations. The monastic scenario largely inspired Umberto Eco's historical novel The Name of the Rose.