Abbadia Alpina

Abbadia Alpina (formerly Abadia; in Piedmontese La Badìa; in Occitan L'Abaïa) is a frazione of the commune of Pinerolo in the Province of Turin in north-west Italy, located between the torrents Lemina and Cusone.

At one time it belonged to a Benedictine monastery founded in 1064 by Adelaide, Countess of Turin, and suppressed in 1748.[1]

In the nineteenth century it was a commune in its own right, part of the mandamento of Pinerolo in the Province of Pinerolo and the Diocese of Pinerolo. c. 1855 it had 192 houses, 315 families and a population of 1,406.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 ‘Abadia’, in Dizionario generale geografico-statistico degli Stati Sardi, ed. by Guglielmo Stefani (Turin: Cugini Pomba, 1855), p. 1.

Coordinates: 44°53′00″N 7°18′16″E / 44.88333°N 7.30444°E / 44.88333; 7.30444

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