The Sacra di San Michele is an ancient abbey 40km from Turin, situated on the top of Mount Pirchiriano. Built between 983 and 987, it is a symbolic monument of the Piedmont Region and an evocative landmark that served as inspiration for Umberto Eco’s novel ‘The Name of the Rose’, a historical murder mystery written in 1980, but set in the year 1327.

The sanctuary is at the midpoint of a pilgrimage route of over two thousand kilometres that connects a wide area of Western Europe from Mont Saint-Michel (France) to Monte Sant’Angelo (Italy).