A village at the mouth of the Susa valley, watched over by the Sacra di San Michele on Mount Pirchiriano above.
The abbey, reached by a long Stairway of the Dead, is the symbol of Piedmont and the inspiration behind Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.
What to see first
Sacra di San Michele
The thousand-year-old abbey balanced on a mountaintop at the mouth of the Susa Valley.
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